The Engagement Motive

David Forbes

Chapter Chapter 9 in The Science of Why, 2015, pp 135-144 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beginnings and endings form the punctuation marks in our lives. Most of us record and recall our life’s journey as a sequence of these punctuation marks (before I moved to LA; when I finished grad school; right after we got married). But the bulk of our lives happen in the hours and days we spend between the beginnings and the endings. As John Lennon once observed, “Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” In the nineteenth century Henry Thoreau, a famous lover of the world around him, advised us to live in the present, to find eternity in every moment.1

Keywords: Punctuation Mark; Full Engagement; Salty Snack; Engagement Motive; Free Floating Anxiety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137502049_10

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