Why Motivation Skills Is Essential to Your Goals
By motivation we understand a set of principles or factors that influence one in the direction of acting for success. They say that without it we would all be but a bunch of passive, lazy people that seem to have no goal in life.
And indeed, ever since we came to understand the world around us, supposedly at a very young age, we have been involved in a motivating existence. It all starts with the child being rewarded with a candy for listening to his/her mum. Therefore, without even becoming aware of what we undergo, we are taught the very basics of responding to motivation.
Motivation seems to appear when, after performing a certain action, there is some kind of reward that creates pleasure or satisfaction to the individual who receives it. The reward in itself may be manifest inherently, meaning that the feeling of achievement or satisfaction is sufficient to repeat the action later. It can also be extrinsic, according to studies; and that means that money or praise coming from others is the key to making you repeat the performance.
As a result, motivation is also of two kinds intrinsic, or inner, and extrinsic, or outer. As it may be obvious to you already, intrinsic motivation has to do with your own person and what you want whereas the extrinsic type has to do with external factors or people. The intrinsic type of motivation is also divided into two more subcategories. One is the intrinsic motivation that relies on enjoyment (let us take a hobby for example) while the other is the one that is based on obligation (like performing a task at work that we want to carry out very well only for our own sake and not for anyone else's).
All in all, motivation surely defines the way we move through life. This is the factor that has made us walk for the first time, that has supported us in learning how speak our native tongue correctly, that has guided us in school years and university studies perhaps, that has made us get a job, get married, have children, provide the best for our children and want to grow old within a home full of peace and warmth. Motivation can take many forms and is found in many things.
And indeed, ever since we came to understand the world around us, supposedly at a very young age, we have been involved in a motivating existence. It all starts with the child being rewarded with a candy for listening to his/her mum. Therefore, without even becoming aware of what we undergo, we are taught the very basics of responding to motivation.
Motivation seems to appear when, after performing a certain action, there is some kind of reward that creates pleasure or satisfaction to the individual who receives it. The reward in itself may be manifest inherently, meaning that the feeling of achievement or satisfaction is sufficient to repeat the action later. It can also be extrinsic, according to studies; and that means that money or praise coming from others is the key to making you repeat the performance.
As a result, motivation is also of two kinds intrinsic, or inner, and extrinsic, or outer. As it may be obvious to you already, intrinsic motivation has to do with your own person and what you want whereas the extrinsic type has to do with external factors or people. The intrinsic type of motivation is also divided into two more subcategories. One is the intrinsic motivation that relies on enjoyment (let us take a hobby for example) while the other is the one that is based on obligation (like performing a task at work that we want to carry out very well only for our own sake and not for anyone else's).
All in all, motivation surely defines the way we move through life. This is the factor that has made us walk for the first time, that has supported us in learning how speak our native tongue correctly, that has guided us in school years and university studies perhaps, that has made us get a job, get married, have children, provide the best for our children and want to grow old within a home full of peace and warmth. Motivation can take many forms and is found in many things.
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