Comments on: Internal vs. External Motivation

By: shanequia

shanequia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:25:05 +0000

awsome awsome possum lol this article was off the chain yo i loved it !

By: shanequia

shanequia — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:25:05 +0000

awsome awsome possum lol this article was off the chain yo i loved it !

By: Your number has been called. — worldmegan

Your number has been called. — worldmegan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:36:46 +0000

[...] what is important to me, what must happen next, what it’s time for me to do. All issues with internal and external motivation aside, the explosion of emotional growth I’m experiencing has served as a compass for the [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:28:05 +0000

this post has me thinking about the actual difference between internal motivation and external motivation. this seems like yet another polarization. when i think polarization i think that both poles do essentially the same thing only they have a different feeling/connotation to them.

also when i think about polarization i think about darkworkers/lightworkers. in order to continue to polarize one direction you need to understand the other direction too. in fact it feels as if you need to be polarizing the other direction at the same time. the best lightworkers are those that know how to be a darkworkers.

By: Lazy Reader — worldmegan

Lazy Reader — worldmegan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:43:51 +0000

[...] I’ve been mulling this over for a few weeks, and I’ve thought of a few probable solutions. I still photoread quite well (if not perfectly), so all I need to iron out is my motivation. [...]

By: James | Dancing Geek

James | Dancing Geek — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:29:14 +0000

A big part of my current introspection is tied up in the difference between external and internal motivation. I’m wondering if there’s a link between these and the head/heart duality: external motivation appeals to the head, internal motivation to the heart? Or they come from there?

Certainly my big STOP! moment was the realisation that all my direction (and thus motivation) was external, and that I wanted to find some internal guidance. And I’m certain that getting my head and heart to join forces, rather than compete, is the way to get great stuff done, so if there is a connection then it would suggest making sure there’s a combination of both, perhaps?

By: D

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:34:05 +0000

Sherlock Holmes was externally motivated. He grew restless and unproductive when the game was not afoot. For everything else there was the seven-percent-solution.

Happy Birthday,
D

By: Tiara

Tiara — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:18:07 +0000

Ooo! I’d say I’m more externally motivated – usually I hardly get things done unless there was a deadline! It’s too easy for me to just say “oh, I don’t have to do this, no consequences”. There are times where I’d suddenly be powered by internal motivation and chug along to something. However, not everything I do in this life are things I necessarily chose to do…external motivation is what helps me get those stuff done.

I’ve heard from a lot of people about how needing external motivation makes you a “bad” person in a way. To be successful/respected/etc you need to have INTERNAL MOTIVATION! You need to be SELF-MOTIVATED! blah blah. Well what does that make me then? A loser? :(