A Short Note On Motivation

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Eric Moreno
Mrs. Murphy
Period 2
4/25/14

Motivation

I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job. Because, he will find an easy way to do it (Bill Gates). This an example of motivation by it being an internal and external of oneself motivation. A lazy person will find away external by him not wanting to do the hard work. So his internal motivation tells himself that he needs to figure out away to make it easier. This is what happens a spark, oneself and society. The Spark is the begging of the motivations by being the root of them because choice theory, a biological theory that suggests we are born with specific needs that we are genetically instructed to satisfy. All of our behavior represents our best attempt at any moment to satisfy our basic needs or genetic instructions. In addition to the physical need for survival, we have four basic psychological needs that must be satisfied to be emotionally healthy (William Glasser) The Oneself is in the middle by external is not being a motivation at all, but instead a form of influencing someone to do something that they normally would not do for themselves. But the need to "influence" or motivate someone to do something, then in all actuality, whatever the activity or task may be . (Hebert, 2007). When people are internally motivated to do something because it either brings them pleasure, they think it is important, or they feel that what they are learning is significant. It has been shown that internal motivation for education drops from grades 3-9 though the exact cause cannot be ascertained (Susan Harter 1981). Also, in younger students it has been shown that contextualizing material that would otherwise be presented in an abstract manner increases the intrinsic motivation of these students. (Diana Cordova, Mark Lepper 1995) Society plays a last role in motivation by describing an individual’s beliefs about how