Understanding the principles of motivation gives us the capacity to find workable solutions to real-world motivational problems.

Studying and applying motivational science can also help us reverse or cope with impulsive urges, habitual experiences, goal failure, counterproductive functionin...

Needs are internal motives that energize, direct and sustain behaviour.

They generate strivings necessary for the maintenance of life as in physiological needs, and for the promotion of growth and wellbeing as in psychological and implicit needs.

The drive theory of motivation...

Personality theory and research show that we are, in fact, motivated in different ways based on our personality traits.

A high level of a particular trait will often make us act as the trait implies: we will be more open to experience, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic.

Change is rarely simple or linear.

It is difficult to find the motivation to engage in activities that are not intrinsically motivating.

What we need is to move away from extrinsically motivated action, e.g., when we have to do something because we fear consequences, and toward introj...

• Positive psychology brings attention to the proactive building of personal strengths and competencies, and these cannot be bad for motivation
• The good life consists of deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living.
• A meaningful li...

Motivation can be experienced as either internal in the form of push motivation or external as in the case of pull motivation

Push motivation is described in terms of biological variables originating in a person’s brain and nervous system and psychological variables that re...

Goals, like mindset, beliefs, expectations, or self-concept, are sources of internal motives and are together referred to as cognition.

As a cognitive mental event, a goal is a "spring to action" that functions like a moving force that energizes and directs our behaviour in purposive ways

Emotions are considered motivational states because they generate bursts of energy that get our attention and cause our reactions to significant events in our lives

They synchronize four interrelated aspects of experience:

• Feelings
• Arousal
• Purpose
• Expressi...