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Someone who convinces you the pain starts tomorrow, not today.
means A person or thing that pushes you to act, by supplying the reason or reward that gets you moving.
from Built from Latin movere, 'to move,' through motivus, 'moving, impelling.' English took 'motive' from this in the 1300s-1400s as the thing that moves someone to act, then added the agent suffix '-ator' (as in 'creator' or 'narrator') to name the person or force doing the moving — so a motivator is, quite literally, a mover of will.
- origin
- from latin movere, to move
- dark secret
- best ones sell urgency, not truth
- paradox
- the need for one often fades once started
- industry tell
- most quoted people never did the thing