Yet it soon became apparent that being driven to perform and succeed is not necessarily where high performance lies.
Whereas Lithgow was driven to perform by an eagerness to please, Hal Holbrook was motivated by a bottomless loneliness.
The theme of Eros overpowering rational self-preservation can be compelling, but Mr. Verow doesn't seem as interested in the psychology of his character as in the rough-sex rituals Todd is driven to perform.
His "reckless" nature is presented as an out-of-control character flaw: throughout his life, Nylen was driven to perform colossally stupid acts, large and small, including endangering his platoon through cowboy antics.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a biologically based psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent, distressing thoughts or images and accompanying ritual behaviors or mental acts that a person is driven to perform.
The compulsive person may be driven to perform the act not as an end in itself but as a means to produce or prevent some other situation, although he is usually aware that the two bear no logical causal relation to each other.
Compulsive behaviours are defined as repetitive, rigid, and stereotyped goal-directed action; individuals refer to being driven to perform them in order to prevent or reduce perceived negative consequences [ 17].
"People question Wayne's attitude as well as his fitness but I worked with him every day last season and can tell you he is totally driven to perform at this World Cup," said Neville, whose brother Gary is part of the England coaching set-up.
The rhetoric of its practitioners has been used to promote genocide in Africa, and people who do it can be driven to the point of performing exorcisms on themselves.
People knew how well they were performing and were driven to improve.
Stephanie is co-author of Driven to Perform, a book for all business professionals, providing them corporate performance management tools for strategy, planning, execution, modeling and optimization to improve their business performance.
