Motivation

 

Motivation

 

Motivation is being moved to action, it usually relates to something we want to do, is slightly aspirational.  To say I was motivated to slump in the sofa would sound odd.

 

Motivation then has two parts an internal and an external part. The internal part might be considered to be a drive, a push, a desire or need, be it psychological or physiological. This forms what might be called the motive. So I am motivated by hunger, or the desire to be valued, or belong.

External to this is the incentive, the thing that the motive aims at, its goal. So the hunger to the food, or the desire to be valued, then success at work.

Motivation is then a push of motive and a pull of incentive.  The intensity of the push is determined by how pressing the homeostatic build-up is, so I haven’t eaten for a day for instance. Or how the levels of pleasure\satisfaction are imagined\anticipated in the incentive.