I’ve been spending some more time thinking about motivation. I know I
think about this topic a lot, but that’s because it ties into two
important areas of my life- working on my thesis, and engaging in physical
activities. These are both areas where I know that the eventual outcome (a
PhD and a strong healthy body) will give me a great deal of satisfaction,
but where my motivation tends to fail in the here and now. So, I continue
to try to understand motivation. To that end, I found this
cool chart about sources of motivation, and what sort of motivational
inducement system works best for each soure of motivation. For example, in
the case of exercise, my motivation is probably Self Concept Internal and
Goal Identification. Still, I have to say that, in certain cases, when I
just need that extra little boost to get started, I tend to
respond very well to self imposed reward systems where I reward myself by
letting myself buy books, so I may try that out.
posted at 12:38 on Fri, 05 May, 2006 |
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