Motivation means the same thing as “tactile ambition”, so using the new phrase is a bad idea.
We hear self-reports—or at least legends—of people “motivated” by far-mode concerns, so I think it can be credibly said that the public conception of “motivation” allows for both the visceral and immediate “motivated not to touch the stove again, lest they get burnt” and the abstract and far-off “motivated to increase revenues in the coming decade”.
Lionhearted’s term expressly forbids far-mode concerns—it picks out a subset of motivation.
However, I cannot endorse the phrase, since it seems that building the concept out as “Near mode motivation(s)” is more expressive (incorporates the entire near/far concept), less jargony, and nearly as short as “tactile ambition” (And probably can be trimmed to “near motivations”—which is shorter than “tactile ambition”—in contexts where it’s used often.)
It seems to me ambition differs slightly from motivation — ambition, I think, often includes some medium-intensity negative emotion with it — but, insightful take here.
We hear self-reports—or at least legends—of people “motivated” by far-mode concerns, so I think it can be credibly said that the public conception of “motivation” allows for both the visceral and immediate “motivated not to touch the stove again, lest they get burnt” and the abstract and far-off “motivated to increase revenues in the coming decade”.
Lionhearted’s term expressly forbids far-mode concerns—it picks out a subset of motivation.
However, I cannot endorse the phrase, since it seems that building the concept out as “Near mode motivation(s)” is more expressive (incorporates the entire near/far concept), less jargony, and nearly as short as “tactile ambition” (And probably can be trimmed to “near motivations”—which is shorter than “tactile ambition”—in contexts where it’s used often.)
Interesting way of putting it.
It seems to me ambition differs slightly from motivation — ambition, I think, often includes some medium-intensity negative emotion with it — but, insightful take here.