People are motivated, so what is motivation? Motivation is the intrinsic motivation to cause, sustain, and direct an individual's activity toward a certain goal. It is unobservable and can only be speculated from external behavior.
Motivation is the intermediary between stimulus and behavior, for example, food is stimulus and eating is behavior, then the intermediary's motivation is hunger. But in real life, we will have a situation where although we are hungry, we can choose to eat or not eat, which is that the same motivation may trigger different behaviors.
But there is still a situation that happens in real life. You want to eat food, but you are not necessarily hungry, it may also be that you are more gluttonous and like to eat food. This is why the same behavior may come from different motivations.
Many of us want to get rich, we all want to make more money, which is a motivation in our hearts, so what happens next? Hard work is one way, gambling is one way, theft is one way, and being held up is one way. The motivations are all the same, but the actions happen differently. The best way to behave is to be willing to do it yourself, and to make money in this way is the highest mode of thinking.
Some people may have taken a crooked path or other informal ways to make money, and often end up burying their future. The motivation is the same, the behavior is different, and the final result is different.
There are two conditions for the formation of motivation. The first condition is the internal condition: need. The mental tendency within the organism to feel a certain lack and to strive for satisfaction. For example, if you like a member of the opposite sex, then this need is an internal need, that is, a real feeling from the heart, a kind of like, a pure like. That's when motivation is formed, so what happens to behavior? One act is pursuit, and the other is waiting.
The second condition is an external condition: an inducement. An external stimulus or situation that causes an individual's motivation. For example, I didn't want to make money, and the demand for making money is not very large, but suddenly an old friend around me for many years has made a lot of money through his own efforts. At this time, I stimulated my motivation to make money, and at this moment I began to think about what are the ways to make money? This is being influenced by the triggers around you.
There are positive and negative triggers. Positive triggers are individuals who tend to or receive certain stimuli to obtain satisfaction; negative triggers are individuals who flee or evade certain stimuli to obtain satisfaction. For example, a friend around him injects positive energy into himself every day, he likes this state very much, he has such a stimulus every day, and he is very happy; but there is also a person full of negative energy around him, who says a lot of negative language in his ear every day, he is very uncomfortable, only by avoiding his words, he is happy.
So in this there is an extension of a summary: because of needs and inducements, motivation arises, which leads to the behavior of the self. Why should we work, earn money to support our families, and let ourselves and our families live well, this is the king. If there is no work behavior, then the money earned is naturally gone.
Mention of work involves work efficiency, work efficiency Everyone's state is different, some people's work efficiency is high, some people's work efficiency is low, so it is extended that work efficiency depends on two factors: one factor is the intensity of motivation, and the other factor is the difficulty of the task.
If the motivation is too weak, the work efficiency will be lower. For example, if we do a job, the boss only sends 1,000 yuan to himself every month, and then he feels that it is too little, and he wants to resign. Motivation is too strong, and the range of perception and attention becomes too narrow, limiting normal activity. For example, you must make more money, so you think less about the illegality of crime, and you only focus on how to make money. So medium motivation is the most productive.
When we do tasks that are easier to complete, the motivation intensity will be higher, because it is easy to complete, there is a sense of achievement; the difficult task, the motivation intensity is also medium; when the difficulty is larger, the motivation intensity will be reduced. For example, I have encountered a project project at this moment, but I find that it is very difficult and my ability cannot be completed, so the motivation intensity will also decrease at this time.
However, if you encounter a project, although the difficulty is there, it is more moderate, and you feel that you are capable of completing it, so the motivation intensity will also be moderate. Thus challenging both your own ability and improving your own ability, which is a very perfect thing.
So if we understand motivation, we will understand very well that there is a motivation behind any action.