Intrinsic motivation occurs when an individual is able to focus on internal drivers as the impetus for doing something. For example, an intrinsically motivated employee will stay late to finish every ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. With so many external factors contributing to your successes and failures, it’s hard to overstate the importance of utilizing every tool ...

At our jobs, we will inevitably face activities that don’t naturally interest us or that we perceive as boring, irrelevant, uncomfortable, or too difficult. This is rooted in how our brains are ...

“I take away his phone and he behaves for three days and then goes right back to the back-talking and crappy attitude. I don’t understand why he doesn’t just... learn!” My ex was talking about our ...

This module is about intrinsic motivation and how it can help you accomplish your goals. This is the first of two videos in the module. After each video, there will be a short quiz. You’ll have to get ...

Children are often more creative, braver and happier because they do things for the joy of doing them. They are "intrinsically" motivated and carry out activities that they care about. What if we ...

I have a friend, let’s call him Steve, who had an interesting thing happen a few months back. He was lying down with his newborn and his wife, and the baby instinctively rolled over and tried to ...

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Is feeling motivated a bit more challenging for you these days? It may be a consequence of overall COVID-19 burnout. Alternatively, it could be pandemic-related parental burnout. In fact, even before ...

When an employee does something in hopes that it will result in a tangible, external reward or outcome, it’s considered to be extrinsically motivated. Such stimuli typically come from an outside ...

Over decades of secrecy and solitude, Henry Darger worked obsessively at his art. He toiled tirelessly across several mediums, but his masterpiece was an illustrated epic novel. Verbosely titled “The ...