The Eagle

Imagine this like the story of the noble salmon returning to his ancestral spawning ground...cept with wings..and the ability to fly backwards..and probably some fishy respiration equipment of some kind..ok maybe not such a good analogy after all😁 "Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!”🦁😽🐱‍👤🐺😻🐯

People are intrinsically motivated when they feel that engaging in a certain activity is its own reward. For example, a student is intrinsically motivated when they study because they find studying enjoyable and meaningful, rather than because they want to get a good grade (an extrinsic motivator). People perform and feel better when they’re intrinsically motivated to take action. To increase your intrinsic motivation, you can focus on the positive aspects of an activity as you experience them (e.g., the feeling of working together with a team), add immediate incentives to the activity (e.g., energizing music), and prioritize activities that you connect to better (e.g., a workout plan that you really enjoy, even if another plan might theoretically be slightly more effective). Intrinsic motivation isn’t mutually exclusive with extrinsic motivation—you can have both at the same time—but depending on the circumstances, it’s sometimes better to focus only on intrinsic motivators.