McClelland’s achievement theory of motivation

 


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I think you must have something in you to be a “have” nation. You must want. That is the crucial thing. Before you have, you must want to have. And to want to have means to be able first, to perceive what it is you want; secondly, to discipline and organise yourself in order to possess the things you want-the industrial sinews of our modern economic base; and thirdly, the grit and stamina, which means   cultural mutations in the way of life in large parts of the tropical areas of the world where the human being has never found it necessary to work in the summer before the autumn, and save it up for the winter.


 


In large areas of the world, a cultural pattern is determined by many things, including climatic conditions. As long as that persists, nothing will ever emerge. And for it to emerge, there must be this desire between contending factors of the “have” nations to try and mould the “have not” nations after their own selves. IF they want that strongly enough, competition must act as an accelerator and no more than an accelerator to the creation of modern, industrial, technological societies in the primitive agricultural regions of the world.


I think Asia can be very clearly demarcated into several distinct parts-East Asia is one: it has got a different tempo of its own. So have South Asia and Southeast Asia. I think this is crucial to an understanding of the possibilities of either development for the good or development which is not in the interest of peace and human happiness in the region.


 


I like to demarcate-I mean not in political terms- demarcate them half in jest, but I think half with some reality on the basis of difference in the tempo according to the people who know what these things are. I mean  East Asia: Korea, Japan and mainland China and including the Republic of China in Taiwan and Vietnam. They are supposed to be the Mahayana Buddhists, And then  there is Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Ceylon, which are supposed to be Hinayana Buddhists. According to the Hinayana Buddhists, if the bedbug disturbs you, then you take your mattress and shake it off; there is that compassion not only for the human being but also for the bedbug, and you give it another chance and you let if off. Either it finds its way onto some other creature or it finds its way back to your bed. But watching the Japanese over the years, I have not the slightest doubt that it is not what they do. And I think this makes some difference. I am not talking now-isms or ideologies. It is something deeper. It is part of the tempo, the way of life.


Kwang, Fernadez or Tan, Lee Kuan Yew, The man and his ideas , Times Editions, Singapore-1998


 


 


 


 



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