"Motivation is the reason for which humans and other animals initiate, continue, or terminate a behavior at a given time."
The internal or external factors that stimulate the drive and willingness to take necessary actions to achieve objectives.
Goal Setting: Setting clear, achievable goals is key to maintaining motivation and self-discipline. This topic involves understanding the SMART method for setting goals and creating a plan to achieve them.
Mindset: Having the right mindset is crucial for developing self-discipline and staying motivated. This topic focuses on the importance of growth mindset, positivity, and resilience.
Time Management: Learning to manage time effectively is a crucial component of self-discipline. This topic involves understanding time management techniques, such as prioritization and scheduling.
Self-awareness: Understanding yourself and your motivations is essential for building self-discipline. This topic explores self-awareness techniques, such as mindfulness and journaling.
Habits: Positive habits can help to build self-discipline and maintain motivation. This topic covers the science of habit formation and how to create positive habits that stick.
Self-reward: Rewarding yourself for accomplishments can help to maintain motivation and build self-discipline. This topic involves learning to create effective self-reward systems.
Procrastination: Procrastination can derail motivation and self-discipline. This topic explores strategies for beating procrastination, such as setting deadlines and breaking tasks into smaller steps.
Perseverance: Developing perseverance is key to maintaining motivation and building self-discipline over the long-term. This topic involves understanding the importance of perseverance and exploring strategies for developing this skill.
Self-talk: The way we talk to ourselves can have a big impact on motivation and self-discipline. This topic involves learning to use positive self-talk and avoid negative self-talk.
Accountability: Being accountable to others can help to maintain motivation and build self-discipline. This topic covers strategies for creating accountability, such as joining a group or working with a coach.
Intrinsic Motivation: Motivation that comes from within one’s self, rooted in personal interests, beliefs, and values. For example, practicing a sport because you love it.
Extrinsic Motivation: Motivation that comes from external factors like getting a reward or avoiding punishment. For example, working late to get a bonus.
Achievement Motivation: Motivation that is driven by the need to accomplish specific goals or achieve mastery. For example, studying for a test to score good grades.
Power Motivation: Motivation that is driven by the desire to control or influence the behavior of others. For example, becoming a leader in an organization.
Affiliation Motivation: Motivation that is driven by a need to be with others or have social relationships. For example, joining a club to meet new people.
Self-efficacy Motivation: Motivation that is driven by the belief in one’s own abilities to achieve success. For example, taking a challenging task because you have faith in your abilities to complete it.
Incentive Motivation: Motivation that is based on potential rewards or benefits that come with achieving a specific goal. For example, a company is offering a cruise to its best-performing employees.
Fear Motivation: Motivation that arises due to fear of potential consequences of not achieving something. For example, doing homework to avoid getting a low grade.
Social Motivation: Motivation that is driven by the desire for social status or recognition. For example, doing something to gain approval or admiration from others.
Appraisal Motivation: Motivation that arises from receiving feedback, criticism or recognition. For example, receiving a compliment for a job well done.
"Motivational states are commonly understood as forces acting within the agent that create a disposition to engage in goal-directed behavior."
"This means that we can be motivated to do something without actually doing it."
"The paradigmatic mental state providing motivation is desire."
"But various other states, such as beliefs about what one ought to do or intentions, may also provide motivation."
"Motivation is derived from the word 'motive', which denotes a person's needs, desires, wants, or urges."
"It is the process of motivating individuals to take action to achieve a goal."
"The psychological elements fueling people's behavior in the context of job goals might include a desire for money."
"Content theories... aim to describe what goals usually or always motivate people."
"Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs... posit that humans have certain needs, which are responsible for motivation."
"Behaviorist theories try to explain behavior solely in terms of the relation between the situation and external, observable behavior without explicit reference to conscious mental states."
"Motivation may be either intrinsic if the activity is desired because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable."
"Motivation may be... extrinsic if the agent's goal is an external reward distinct from the activity itself."
"It has been argued that intrinsic motivation has more beneficial outcomes than extrinsic motivation."
"Motivational states can also be categorized according to whether the agent is fully aware of why he acts the way he does or not, referred to as conscious and unconscious motivation."
"Motivation is closely related to practical rationality."
"Failing to fulfill this requirement results in cases of irrationality, known as akrasia or weakness of the will, in which there is a discrepancy between our beliefs about what we should do and our actions."
"In the field of business, a central question concerns work motivation, for example, what measures an employer can use to ensure that his employees are motivated."
"Motivation is also of particular interest to educational psychologists because of its crucial role in student learning."
"Specific interest has been given to the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in this field."