What motivates me?

• Motivation can be defined as the driving force behind all the actions of an individual.

“Its not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.” – Herbie

Hancock

• Some people strive to achieve their goals for personal satisfaction and self-improvement while others compete with their surroundings in achievement settings to simply be classified as the best.

“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.” – Huey Newton

• This is a question that shows us our diversity in terms of our thinking, desires in life and motivation towards achieving.

What motivates me?

• A Vehicle needs an engine and for the engine to function, it needs water, coolants and petrol to keep it going.

• Some factors that affect us as

individuals and drive us to the height

of achievement:

i) Personal Satisfaction

ii)Self-improvement

iii)Being the best

iv)Openness to experience

Factors influenced by motivation

• An individual’s needs or desires greatly determine how they behave. Motivation is based on your emotions and achievement-related goals.

“I think a lot of times it’s not the money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out

of doing what you do that motivates you.” – Martin Yan

Forms of Motivation: Extrinsic Intrinsic Physiological Achievement motivation Negative forms of motivation. E.g. Punishment

Achievement Motivation• Achievement motivation can be defined as the need for

success or attainment of excellence.

• Individuals will satisfy their needs through different means, and are driven to succeed for various reasons. Explicit and implicit motivations have a compelling impact on behaviour.

“Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.” – Roberto

Duran

DriversDrivers may either be:

1.InternalImplicit motives are spontaneous motives to act, also known as task performances, and are aroused though incentives inherent to the task. Task behaviours are accelerated in the face of a challenge through implicit motivation, making performing a task in the most effective manner the primary goal. A person with a strong implicit drive will feel pleasure from achieving a goal in the most efficient way. The increase in effort and overcoming the challenge by mastering the task satisfies the individual.

Drivers2. External Explicit motives are expressed through deliberate choices and more often

stimulated for extrinsic reasons. The explicit motives are built around a person’s self-image. This type of motivation shapes a person’s behaviour based on their own

self-view and can influence their choices and responses from outside cues.

The primary agent for this type of motivation is perception or perceived ability.

Motivation - Money

• Money motivates neither the best people nor the best in people.

“It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit, that is reserved for

belief, principle, and morality.” – Dee Hock

Levels of Goal-representation

1) Task-Specific Guidelines for Performance: - Such as performing a certain action.

2) Situation-Specific orientations: - Represent the purpose of achievement activity. Such as demonstrating competence relative to others in a situation.

3) Personal Goals: - Symbolize achievement pursuits such as getting good grades, and self-standards and future self-images, including planning for future goals and success.

Importance Of Motivation In Everyday Life

• Our basic behaviours and feelings are affected by our inner drive to succeed over life’s challenges while we set goals for ourselves.

• Our motivation also promotes our feelings of competence and self-worth as we achieve our goals.

• Motivation provides us with means to compete with others in order to better ourselves and to seek out new information to learn and absorb.

Push and Pull Motivation

1) Push People push themselves towards their goals or to achieve

something, such as the desire for escape, rest, and relaxation, prestige, health and fitness, adventure, and social interaction.

It is easy to get discouraged when there are obstacles present in the path of achievement.

Push motivation acts as willpower and people’s willpower is only as strong as the desire behind the willpower.

2) Pull Is stronger than push motivation. Factors emerge as a result of the

attractiveness of a destination as it is perceived by those with the propensity to travel.

It is characterized by the desire to achieve a goal so badly that the desire pulls us to achieve the goal itself.

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