We all know what motivation is and how it affects us. But often, despite all the knowledge and awareness, we still get confused by the concept of motivation. So what is it that causes all the confusion? Why do we fail to totally understand motivation?
Well, the basic function of motivation is quite simple. It is to provide us with happiness and to remove pain from our life. This is the basic fundamental on which all the motivational talks, sessions or books are based. What varies is the kind of happiness and pain that it tends to provide. This makes you read books and take sessions in order to realize what techniques you ought to do in order to be motivated.
So why exactly is ‘motivation’ the key factor behind our success? Why not ‘intelligence’ or ‘hard work’ for instance? Surely, motivation must have something that it got this status. The real thing is that whenever we want to perform a task, accomplish a goal or simply do some work, we need certain propelling factor that would make us do that work. This ‘propelling factor’ is motivation. It is this motivation that tends to make us fulfill the accomplishments and perform some work.
Now the question is: how does our mind feel motivated in order to make us perform that task? Basically, there are three important factors through which our mind functions. These are: