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A Look at Motivation: What Is It?
Those of us interested in self-help hear a lot about and talk a lot about a thing called
motivation
. This particular article itself won’t be all that motivational (though it may infact take some motivation to get through). To follow we will take a closer, albeit brief,look at just what this thing called motivation is and learn a little more about it. Maybethen, perhaps, it will be easier for us to “get motivated” when we know exactly what thismeans!
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Motivation is, on psychological terms, that which is causal in terms of behavior,i.e., the reason or reasons behind the action. Motivation can be based on baseneed (e.g., hunger is the motivation for eating) or based on higher desire (I wantedthat last piece of cake so I took it). Motivation can also be rooted in higher concept, e.g., I behave a certain way because I hold a certain belief, perhaps a particular view of right and wrong.
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Motivation is governed primarily by
reward 
, a reward being a positiveacknowledgment for a given behavior or behavior set. Rewards themselves can be either 
intrinsic
or 
extrinsic
. In intrinsic reward can be as simple as self-satisfaction or a feeling of accomplishment. An extrinsic reward can be anythingfrom food to money to love.Intrinsic rewards tend to be secondary to the pursuit of certain actions for their own sakeand thus a happy byproduct. Extrinsic rewards tend to be pursued for the rewards
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