If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.