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A.N. Leontiev wrote (A.N. Leontiev. Activity, Consciousness, Personality. P.147): “Motives alone, inducing activity, at the same time give it a personal meaning; we will call them sense-forming motives.
Meaning is always subjective in the sense that it does not exist outside the perception or relation of the subject. At the same time, the meaning of the knife can be generally understood and generally accepted (in a separate group of people at a certain point in time) (a knife as a means of cutting), and purely individual, personal (memories of a trip where you were given it).
Others coexisting with them, acting as motivating factors (positive or negative) — sometimes acutely emotional, affective — are deprived of a meaning-forming function; we will conditionally call such motives incentive motives.
Don’t confuse incentives with meaning-forming motives. Those who confuse them often begin to consider beautiful, lofty motives as ordinary, or even base, simply on the grounds that, along with lofty meaning-forming motives, there are also quite mundane incentive motives.
Do not confuse these motives and think about people worse than they are …
If next to the motive “take care of your mother” you find the stimulus “I personally will be pleased with this,” then of course you are attentive, but the stimulus from this remains only an incentive, and the motive remains a motive. See →
If you ask me if I like to turn the steering wheel of a car, I will answer: “Yes, I do.” But if you then say that I bought a car in order to turn the steering wheel, I will smile … “Turn the steering wheel”, “prestigious” — this is true, but these are motives-incentives. And the real, meaning-forming motive, for which I laid out a really large amount of money, is the speed and convenience of traveling by car, which cannot be solved in other ways.