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  2. Content theory - Wikipedia

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    This type of motivation is a drive that is developed from an emotional state. One may feel the drive to achieve by striving for success and avoiding failure. In achievement motivation, one would hope that they excel in what they do and not think much about the failures or the negatives. [76]

  3. Bill Gates and Mark Cuban swear that failure helped build ...

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    In one part of the study, participants were asked to predict the likelihood of a nurse, lawyer, or teacher passing a licensing exam after having failed. People overestimated success rates in each ...

  4. Promoting Healthy Choices: Information vs. Convenience - HuffPost

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    stomach, whereas going out to eat typically occurs when one is hungry, and generally requires the consumer to make only one immediate meal choice. Consumers who are hungry and anticipating a quick meal may be more short-sighted and less motivated to engage in the effortful processing required to use nutritional information (George Loewenstein ...

  5. Two-factor theory - Wikipedia

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    However, Herzberg added a new dimension to this theory by proposing a two-factor model of motivation, based on the notion that the presence of one set of job characteristics or incentives leads to worker satisfaction at work, while another and separate set of job characteristics leads to dissatisfaction at work. Thus, satisfaction and ...

  6. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Intrinsic motivation comes from internal factors like enjoyment and curiosity; it contrasts with extrinsic motivation, which is driven by external factors like obtaining rewards and avoiding punishment. For conscious motivation, the individual is aware of the motive driving the behavior, which is not the case for unconscious motivation.

  7. Kidney dialysis - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of semipermeable membrane during hemodialysis, where blood is red, dialysing fluid is blue, and the membrane is yellow. Kidney dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, dialysis, 'dissolution'; from διά, dia, 'through', and λύσις, lysis, 'loosening or splitting') is the process of removing excess water, solutes, and toxins from the blood in people whose kidneys can no longer ...

  8. A Man Has Received the First Pig-Kidney Transplant - AOL

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    Slayman had received a human kidney transplant five years ago, but like so many people with kidney disease, the organ began to fail and he continued to need dialysis.

  9. Hemodialysis - Wikipedia

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    Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is a process of filtering the blood of a person whose kidneys are not working normally. This type of dialysis achieves the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of kidney failure.