{"id":31,"date":"2017-10-02T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-06-10T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T15:44:08","slug":"there-are-no-extrinsic-or-intrinsic-motivations-there-are-inner-motivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/motivation\/there-are-no-extrinsic-or-intrinsic-motivations-there-are-inner-motivations","title":{"rendered":"There are no extrinsic or intrinsic motivations. There are inner motivations."},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a well-known difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. The latter is seen as being much more truly motivating. One more step to inside may be needed though.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This is related to \u2018subconceptual processing\u2019, being mental processing that happens beneath the level of what can readily be put into concepts. It cannot easily be talked about except in a kind of poetical way. What one consciously sees as an intrinsic motivator is not really present\u00a0inside<\/em>\u00a0the mind, being deeply part of who one\u00a0really is. One can write on a piece of paper \u2018flow\u2019 or \u2018joy in work\u2019 or \u2018challenge on the job\u2019. These are descriptions at the outside. They are not experiences by themselves. Therefore they do not \u2018move\u2019 a person. Only something very concrete, something in the \u2018here and now\u2019 can move a person. Very logical. Look at physics… Of course, a human mind is quite different from two round objects colliding in a physics\u2019 class. It is the opposite in complexity, thus gets moved by a completely different kind of objects.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, a human mind gets moved by nothing else but deeper, \u2018inner\u2019 meanings, what one can only become vaguely aware of or \u2018feel deep inside\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anything called extrinsic or intrinsic motivation passes through this, or is no motivation at all. One had\u00a0better call it a\u00a0\u2018goal\u2019.<\/p>\n

Even so, a big difficulty in getting this landed is that \u2018inner\u2019 always means \u2018less conceptual\u2019, therefore less easy to pinpoint. Not easy to talk about, to get into people\u2019s attention, to convey, to work with. You as a reader are also involved now.<\/p>\n

You may ask what \u2018inner\u2019 concretely means. Concretely, it means nothing. And yet as we now can see, concretely, it means everything.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This paradox has a simple resolution. We just don\u2019t make the distinction well enough between \u2018concrete\u2019 and \u2018with clear borders\u2019. In this case, the concrete does not have well-defined borders at all. Yet \u2018inner\u2019 is where all motivation is born. Take it or leave it. Human mind gets moved by entities with extremely fuzzy borders. Only these are really concrete motivators.<\/p>\n

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