Some people are driven by goals. Others by questions. Most business frameworks only recognise the first group. What happens when our systems misread motivation? What if the person who keeps asking why is motivated differently? We’ve learned to detect goal-driven energy: needs, emotions, actions. But there’s another level we rarely register: curiosity without a goal, exploration without urgency. So, it seems, our motivational models may be precise but incomplete. This is what “The Lateral Motive” explores: why our frameworks miss half the story, and what becomes visible when we start paving the desire paths people actually walk.