#intrinsic motivation>>>>> extrinsic motivation

[chugging-antiseptic-dye]

✧ the cards are never in your favour ✧ (joshua x tarot! reader) part two

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(a/n : part two of my tarot! reader series. i was going kind of crazy of mingao's new ep and working on this distracted me a lot xd. to understand the worldbuilding, its better to read part one first. but no pressure!)

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[voidcanarys]

I’m assuming people know this but isagi’s “ego types” he’s ‘created’ are real theory

like how flow state is an actual thing, not just made up for blue lock

self-style ego vs world-style ego is literally just intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation

So world-type (aka isagi, hiori, reo etc) would be extrinsic motivation and self-type (aka shidou, bachira, nagi) would be intrinsic motivation

I hope this is taken further with in the manga and is actually discussed with all players, not just kept as theory in isagi’s head

[scholarly-sylphide]

how to scientifically overcome executive dysfunction (Intrinsic Motivation + Self Determination Theory)

[mcmactictac]

god psychology is so INTERESTING we are so back boys. Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation is what we’re excited about today. Time for me to ramble about psychology!!

So intrinsic motivation is when you want to engage in an activity because you enjoy it and find it interesting. So something like playing video games, watching tv, drawing, writing etc. whatever it is you do just because you like doing it.

And extrinsic motivation is the things you do because you have to or feel you SHOULD. Whether there is a reward for doing the thing or pressure to do the thing, those are both extrinsic motivation. So if your parents want you to go to law school, or if you’ll get money if you go to work.

now the thing that’s fascinating is the RELATION between the two. Because in the simplest of terms, intrinsic motivation is seen as “better” than extrinsic motivation. And you’ve probably heard that before like oh you shouldn’t rely on other people to provide you happiness or whatever like it comes from within. Chances are you’ve thought “cool theory bro. Not as easy in practice though”. (And to be clear, it’s not. Desire for external validation is a whole other ball game)

Now the really interesting thing comes from the studies! They did this with a bunch of young kids and they gave them a bunch of random toys to play with. The toy they were testing was magic markers They essentially had three groups for the kids.

Kids who played with the markers of their own free will, just cause they liked them and didn’t get rewarded for it

Kids who played with the markers out of free will but then got an unexpected reward for it

And kids who were told they’d get a reward if they played with the markers

So they did all that then came back a few weeks later to test it again with the same group, but no rewards this time. And people who played with the markers of their own free will and got no reward played with the markers just as much as before (this is an example of intrinsic motivation)

BUT both the kids in group 2 and 3 played with the markers LESS when there wasn’t a reward. Like it makes sense for group 3 you take away the reward and you lose the motive. But group 2 originally had intrinsic motivation! But by providing that reward for something they did intrinsically they were less likely to do it in the future because they wouldn’t get a reward out of it.

Which to me is already super interesting but like when you apply it to real life it’s even more so!! Like let’s look at the job market with this in mind for a second. Let’s say you’re a teenager, who is financially supported by adults in your life. You don’t NEED money or a job. But you’ve got a really strong love of animals. So you go and volunteer at your local animal shelter. You do this because you love it, and are intrinsically motivated to do it. Let’s say you work there for a bit, and then you’re offered a job! You go yeah I like being here, I’ll take it! So now you’re getting paid to work at the animal shelter. Great, because you’re making money! You work there for a few months, but let’s say the shelter is losing money. They can’t pay people anymore, they have to work on a strictly volunteer basis. You don’t have that as a job anymore. The chances of you going back to volunteer are significantly lower than if you had never had a job at all. You’ve lost your external reward, and that took over your internal motivation.

It’s not that people don’t like things! It’s the power that reward has on you! People experience that intrinsic motivation ALL the time! But when you like or are good at something people try to make money off of it (understandable given the society we live in) but because of that you aren’t doing it for enjoyment anymore you’re doing it for money and you need money to live! So because we’ve created a society where money is so important and people are trying to capitalize off of their hobbies (again, understandable) people are actually way more likely to LOSE interest in those things because of it! It’s not that you’re just miserable and hate everything you used to love your motivation has just changed!!

Idk idk this isn’t very eloquent at all but I think looking at society like this and then the impact capitalism has on our well being and motivation because it essentially demands extrinsic motivation when we are objectively happier and more satisfied when we are intrinsically motivated is very very interesting

[jovialtrashbird]

[fairytalesandfandoms]

It feels like reading is a bit... higher-stakes than it used to be?

You have to read because all the articles say it's good for your mental health, your empathy, and your attention span. You have to read to keep up with what people are talking about, otherwise you'll be left out of the conversation (but you shouldn't just jump on any viral bestseller bandwagon). You have to read because a friend (or just some person online) recommended this book really enthusiastically, and you don't want to ignore them, do you? You have to read (preferably indie) to support authors, publishers, booksellers, and libraries. You have to read (specific authors/books/subgenres) to prioritise marginalised groups and decentre privileged ones. You have to read because suddenly you can't keep up with all the bookstagram/booktok/Goodreads people who get through 100+ books a year. You have to read to get through your TBR, because you must get through your TBR. You have to read because everyone should read these classics at least once in their life. And of course, you have to read so you can still say you read.

I'm not saying these are necessarily bad goals (some of them are very good and important). And I hope I don't come off as sounding like a whiny privileged person having a tantrum at being asked to think about things other than themselves. But having all these things in the back of my mind generates pressure and makes reading feel more like a demand than a fun activity.

[lingeringscars]

Academic institutional imperatives are literally stacked against being a good teacher, so for all you people that suffer w/ bad professors I Am So Sorry

[sungbeam]

the problem seems to be that i grew up being taught that the wrong things matter

[akumajou-special]

I agree that the motive to work hard for your partner(s) shouldn't be out of fear of losing them, and I don't want to conflate OP's rejection of the former in this post with complacency - this vulnerability and trust is the *basis* of love - but an effort to do more for your partner(s) for mutual sake is important to me. I don't think challenging oneself to do more is necessarily some kind of sisyphian display.

I also don't think conditional love is always bad - in fact, I think healthy conditions are what we might call 'boundaries'.

OP is likely rejecting the task of showing love moreso if taken up out of fear, as well as rejecting unreasonably conditional love, but I do think there is a preferable middle ground to both frantically conditional love and totally unconditional love. I think love *itself* is rest, vulnerability, and trust, but to love and be loved is more than that.

having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

[justsaying4041]

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[wordyprint]

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[britneyshakespeare]

for me, consulting writing advice is always more confusing than not. like when you tell me to start my literary essay with "an attention-grabbing first sentence" i'm like, i've literally been told my whole life that every thought i have about literature is boring to most people. my own attention is already siezed; as for "grabbing" other people's, you can't ask me how i expect to do that.

[punkitt-is-here]

A lot of "Minecraft is BAD" videos are really annoying because, like, there's actually a lot of things that could use fixing, yes, but you're just trying to turn this into 3D Terraria. I think a lot of people who make these videos forget that most Minecraft players are intrinsically motivated, rather than extrinsically. It's a sandbox game at heart, the vanilla experience does not need highly-controlled level progression.

[teachanarchy]

How to get motivated even when you don’t feel like it

[jovialtrashbird]

[sanetimental]

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