Rewarding Efforts Lead To Intrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic motivation is the desire to do something for its own sake. With intrinsic motivation, we enjoy the action as its own reward, and we do it without taking money, fortune, or fame into account.

You are intrinsically motivated when you accomplish something because it is personally rewarding to you. You want to do something because of an internal desire.

For example:

• Going for a run every morning because you love the runner’s high and the energy it gives ...

The most important distinction between discipline and motivation is that discipline is consitent, while motivation is not. 

Discipline takes up the slack when motivation doesn’t show up. When we rely on motivation, our performance comes and goes, and we risk falling back into old habits. Wh...