THE SCIENCE OF MOTIVATION

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THE SCIENCE OF MOTIVATION

Motivation!

The most encountered word in every person’s life. We all use this term most frequently in our daily life routines from doing a trivial task to a huge great project.

This piece of writing involves all the basics and essentials regarding the caption ''motivation'' in our lives.

 WHAT IS MOTIVATION?

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Motivation is the process of initiating, guiding and maintaining the goal-oriented behavior patterns. It is the driving force that causes the person to think logically, precisely and to work with full potential in achieving a set goal. It involves the biological, social, cognitive, emotional and social forces that activate your behavior patterns towards a set direction.

Motivation is a broad term that not only involves the factors that initiate the goal-oriented attitudes but also necessitates all those essentials required for the maintenance of these behaviors and drive forces.

Have you ever thought:

Why do we need motivation? Is living life normally without much thinking and pondering is just not sufficient enough? Why we require motivation to move on? What is the importance of motivation? How a motivated and a non-motivated person can be differentiated? How life seems to be without motivation? Is there only a specific circle in society that believes the concept of motivation?

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Well all these questions attain a trivial importance in the majority of population while there is also a distinct crowd that understands this concept very well.

Being passive is not the default mode of human being. It is the man’s nature to strive, work and move in the direction of what he desires. As life is just about moving on and working while to become stagnant or stuck is just similar to be dead.

Sometimes actions may not bring happiness but it is also the fact that without actions you don’t find happiness or contentment in your life. Motivation involves the little acts whether in getting a glass of water to fulfill the thirst, reading a book to gain knowledge or to do more and more shopping to update your looks according to the modern trends. Psychologist have proved various theories of motivation including instinct theory,  drive theory, cognitive theory and humanistic theory.

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 COGNITIVE THEORY

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HUMANISTIC THEORY

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WHY IS MOTIVATION IMPORTANT?

Understanding motivation provides many valuable insights to human nature. It is important to have knowledge regarding motivation because it makes us know from where it arises and why it changes with the passage of time? What factors increase and decrease it?

 By attaining information regarding motivation, a person becomes able to realize why some types of motivations are more beneficial in contrast to the others. It makes a person to think and behave logically in every life task and to understand the meaning and purpose of a successful life.

    TYPES OF MOTIVATION

Types of motivation can be categorized as:

1.     EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION:

Extrinsic motivations include all the motivation that arise from the outside vicinity of an individual. This may involve the medals, trophies, praise, money, social standards and recognition that makes a person more confident and a firm believer of his potentials. When a person is externally motivated there are factors from the external environment that push the person to work more effectively in hope of achieving the great reward that in return will provide him inner peace, confidence and happiness. 

Examples may involve: 

·     Studying for preparing the exams

·     Athlete exercising to lose weight for winning the Olympics.

·     Cleaning your home because guests are coming to your home.

 

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2.     INTRINSIC MOTIVATION:

Intrinsic motivation may involve the motivation patterns that arise from within the individual. It includes doing something personally by a person himself.

When a person is intrinsically motivated, his behavior patterns are fluctuated positively by his internal desires to do something for his own sake.

Examples may include:

·      Playing a game because you want to spend your leisure time

·        Reading a book because you desire to have a best novel story

·        Cleaning your room because you want everything precise and well organized.

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 BENEFITS OF MOTIVATION 

There are enormous benefits of motivation, some of which are listed below:

·       It creates the positive attitude in your personality.

·        It makes you develop competences, creative and goal setter attitudes in your life.

·        A motivated person never gets disappointed by life failures rather considers them as leading steps ahead to a marvelous achievement.

·        It provides a pathway to change your thinking, actions and your reactions in different life situations.

·        Good motivation leads to an enhanced well-being.  

·        Motivation leads to a good mental health of a person.

 

FROM WHERE TO SEARCH MOTIVATION?

I personally believe that starting from every miniature creation to a massive thing in our surroundings is a great source of motivation to us.

 Consider a little bird flying and praising the Almighty in the morning in search of feed for her babies or an ant advancing in a well-disciplined manner in search of a food, a spider investing it’s all potentials to entangle the grasped fly in its web or a dear running faster and faster to protect its life from predators. All these snerios are a great source of positive potentials in our bodies; if we ponder them logically.   

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Motivation is also found in a poor slum boy who works dedicatedly from the dawn to dusk just to attain a single day bread or a line man working hard in heavy storms to eliminate the electricity issues in the prescribed area. 

A housewife provides a sparkling motivation who works all day for making her family best in every aspect of life. What does she achieve in return or what it makes her continue her struggling attitude without any sort of laziness? It just involves her inner happiness and contentment that appears when she observes her family processing and attaining success in different aspects of life.

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Your rivals and opponents play a crucial role in shaping your instincts and behaviors. I am really grateful to all my rebels and envious persons that act as a spark in a burning fire of achieving my goals.

A broken heart relationship seems to be a painful sensation but in reality, it involves a great new life motivation much better than before. 😊

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To cover all the aspects of motivation in single cryptography is just not possible but I would conclude this piece of writing with my favorite motivational quote:

It is okay to be a glow stick as sometimes you have to break before you shine brightly :)