If you are so motivated, read on. Most often researchers talk about two types of motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic motivation is based on concrete or overt rewards. Intrinsic motivation is based on internal rewards. While this discrimination of motivational sources is intuitively appealing, it appears to break down under closer examination.
Intrinsic motivation comes from within.
But personal satisfactions can be quite eclectic. That is clearly intrinsic motivation. On the scale of intrinsic to extrinsic, these responses would still have you in the intrinsic realm. The gray middle ground begins to emerge. Extrinsic motivations are rewards that come from outside our self.