• Competition, taken as the drive to prove one's self better than one or more others.
• Sympathy, taken as the drive to lighten another's burden and help them through something that is difficult for them.
   
• They form a Yin/Yang balance.
   
• Competition without sympathy doesn't ever stop pushing; it walks all over others, oblivious or simply not caring what ( Read more... )

Good summary with great accompanying animation of stuff most of us have heard before:

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test...
HFPS - The Humanitarian

Humanity, Foreground, Big Picture, and Shape
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The Nerd Handbook (thank you Wil)

(...related: The Cave and N.A.D.D....)

( My personal dissertation on it )

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This backs up one of my basic assertions about humanity: People want to be good, it's just that evil is so easy.

From the quote on Slashdot:

"The Washington Post is reporting on recent neuroscience research indicating that the brain is pre-wired to enjoy altruism - placing the interests of others ahead of one's own. In studies, '[G]enerosity ( Read more... )