How Attention Seeking Behavior Can Sabotage Your True Happiness
What really brings you joy
Is attention seeking behavior throwing shade on your true brilliance? If so you may be wasting your precious time and energy on superficial rewards. You may be guilty of creative self-sabotage.
Before we delve any deeper, let’s take a look at the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards.
Intrinsic rewards are the non-physical rewards. They can be defined as the feeling of contentment one finds in the completion of any task.
An extrinsic reward is a tangible and visible reward like money, marks or recognition.
Both are important motivators. But which ones bring true meaning to life?
Attention Seeking Behavior
For grown-ups, attention-seeking behavior is an unconscious or conscious effort to become the center of attention, sometimes to gain admiration or validation.
This Is What It Looks Like:
- being controversial for a reaction
- fishing for compliments
- embellishing and exaggerating for recognition
- pretending to be incapable of doing something to get attention
