If we are not inspired by some activity (and we should do it anyway), it is useful to find someone who likes it. When we observe those who are passionate about their work, enjoy the process itself, and not from the benefits that the results achieved should bring to them, we ourselves begin to work in the same way.
If we are not inspired by some activity (and we should do it anyway), it is useful to find someone who likes it. When we observe those who are passionate about their work, enjoy the process itself, and not from the benefits that the results achieved should bring him (psychologists call this internal motivation as opposed to external), we ourselves begin to work the same way. In an experiment conducted by psychologists at universities in the United States and the Netherlands under the direction of Edward Deci, subjects watched how other participants solved mathematical problems, and then answered the scientist’s questions: in one case with enthusiasm and recklessness, in the other with boredom , constantly reminding of the promised reward. Those who followed the “intrinsically motivated” participant then worked more willingly, put in more effort, and performed better on tasks.