EMULATING ROLE MODELS’ TRAITS FOR INCREASING SELF-MOTIVATION
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The traits of a desirable person with capabilities, morals, and ethics can be a valuable person and a good role model for others in society, requiring acceptance and emulation. Additionally, it is widely acknowledged that role models serve as essential inspirations for others’ self-improvement by increasing self-motivation and emphasizing goals to achieve success. In this article, the authors intend to present the concept of good role models’ traits, the influence of emulating role models’ traits, the importance of motivation, increasing self-motivation, and the relationship between emulating role models’ traits and increasing self-motivation. This article will conclude that role models positively influence individual behavior and can be used as a significant source of inspiration for others to enhance motivation for self-development and achieve their goals through the application of these principles and the various personality traits of role models’ behavior. This will lead to the principles of selecting and determining a way of life based on the appropriate role models to develop one’s potential in every area and has a beneficial and sustainable quality of life.
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