Motivation. What is motivation, where does it come from, and also, what is the physiology behind it?

Motivation means to move

Motivation, motus, motor, movement. Motivation literally means movement.

This is an interesting intervention, because, people think that they need motivation in order to do something. I say on the contrary, while you are doing something, you are motivated.

For example, let us talk the gym. People often think that you need motivation in order to go to the gym and to work out. However the hilarity is that once you are actually inside the gym, then the motivation will come to you.

This means:

Don’t seek motivation before going to the gym. Better to just be mindless, and to just drive to the gym, and then figure it out once you get there.

Let us remember the very wise Publilius Syrus saying:

The gladiator creates his plans once he enters the arena.

Note, “The gladiator makes his plans before he enters the arena.”