Even though more and more means of learning become available, finding the time to apply oneself is increasingly difficult when less demanding activities beg.
But researchers conveniently do not consider what it takes to apply oneself so assiduously and, in particular, why one would want to work so hard if one was not progressing rapidly to the head of the class.
Grades indicate either natural talent or the ability to apply oneself to learning certain skills that may not come naturally, and playing the game of school -- all are desirable qualities in one way or another.
Worker motivation canbe understood as the degree of willingness to apply oneself to work and it occurs as a result of an interaction between individual, organizational and cultural determinants [ 28].
Help someone who wants help and is willing to apply oneself.
It was never a label that could possibly have been applied to oneself.
One quick test, supported if not overtly recommended by Malignant Sadness, is to see whether the final lines of Robert Burton's "Abstract of Melancholy" apply to oneself: "Ile change my state with any wretch, / Thou canst from geale [jail] or dunghill fetch: / My paines past cure, another Hell, / I may not in this torment dwell, / Now desperate I hate my life, / Lend me an halter or a knife.
Aristotelian essentialism, if correct, applies to oneself as well as to other things in the world.
In Evolution as Entropy, we suggested that neo-Darwinism had become a sociological label one applied to oneself in order to be considered acceptably mainstream.
Using findings from social cognition, they argued that clothing styles might prime specific mental categories about one's self such that those categories that are most easily accessed in a given situation would be more likely to be applied to oneself than categories of information that are difficult to access.
