Sh,Sadeghi- Compare & contrast essay about intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation

Compare & contrast essay about intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation
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I have heard people say the distance between failure and success is motivation. But what is motivation? Can we learn it? Where is the region of it? How can we motivate someone to do something? By answering to these questions maybe we can understand how we can achieve our different goals. In this essay we want to survey and compare two different motivations. In fact we have two types of motivation; intrinsic motivation and extrinsic one. Based on the definition of motivation they have some similarities. They can have the same results and both can interest someone to achieve his/ her ends. But they have some differences too. They are different in the way how can we create them, their consistency and their nature.

Extrinsic refers to outside factors which cause motivation. It can be a prize, job, money or so on. Although they cause interest in people but when a person reaches to these rewards his/ her efforts decrease.

Intrinsic motivation as its name shows; the internal factors should cause motivation. These factors can be different. It can be love, acceptance and self-steam. Love is the most powerful stimulus to do something. It is inside sense to reach goals. Although the intrinsic motivation has strong effects, it is easier to create external motivation in others.

In extrinsic motivation a person do something for operant rewards. In fact these rewards cause motivation and as soon as the person reaches them the rate of motivation is decreased. But in intrinsic motivation a person because the rewards are internal so they have strong effects on personality. If we can bring internal rewards in someone, he/ she reach high self-confidence, self-knowledge, believe his/ her abilities. So these valuable things are more consistence than external rewards.

The consequence of extrinsic motivation is addictive nature. Imagine that in school we use prize in order to motivate leaner to learn something. After some time the learning of students depends on the rewards and the motivation doesn’t gain knowledge but it causes to reach rewards. This condition increase competition sense in students. They always think that we have one winner so the participants always fear from failure. So we have low risk taking in the class. But in intrinsic one we can cause cooperate harmony, experience of self-knowledge and specially in teaching system an internalized thirst for knowledge and learning is increased. In fact they learn because they love to learn.

Therefore, if we want to be successful person we should know how we can increase our motivation. By both motivations we can increase our interest. But as we mentioned above, in intrinsic motivation we have high consistency and it has strong and long effects on our personality though it is hard to recognize ways to create intrinsic motivation directly, but as we find it we will fell community security and also self- actualization.