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It is a internal stimulus but can be stimulated or reinforced eternally.
Incentive theories of motivation shift the emphasis from the internal "pushes" to external "pulls." They state that motivation acts by making goal objects more attractive. For example, brain stimulation in the hypothalamus can turn cats that don't hunt into hunters. This hunting is completely normal, so apparently the stimulation activates the motivating brain circuits for the behaviors that go into hunting, which were normally inactive in these non-hunting cats.
Cats' hunting behavior is quite stereotyped. A cat starts by prowling around looking for prey. When it spots a mouse, it slowly slinks up toward it. When close enough, it pounces, pins the mouse with a batting movement of its paw, turns its head, opens its mouth and bites the mouse on the back of its neck. Flynn (1969) and his co-workers showed that the brain stimulation that turns on hunting makes the parts of the hunting behavior much easier to trigger. During effective stimulation, the visual search, paw batting, head turning, and biting reactions are triggered more easily by their natural stimuli. This illustrates the way incentive theories interpret motivated behavior: Motivation makes a specific set of behaviors much easier to elicit by their natural environmental stimuli.
Incentive motivation explains hunger this way: Hunger makes you eat by making food and food-related stimuli more attractive. Instead of emphasizing the internal push of motivation, this view emphasizes the attractiveness of external stimuli related to motivation. For example, when you are hungry, you find food related stimuli more attractive and go find them.
So it's correct that It is a internal stimulus but can be stimulated or reinforced eternally.
Thanks for the A2A
I believe that there is no ONE correct answer to this question as self motivation can be different for different people. For anxiety-stricken people who are introverts, for them external stimulus are very healthy as they seek reassurances constantly but those people who have high self esteem and are confident in their own person, their strongest bet would be on internal stimulus.
I would say a mix of both actually in the 40/60 ratio!
It's internal. You only know what can really motivates you.
Your boss can motivate you when you are feeling low but to act on it and work against demotivation, it is from within, it is the so called "self motivation".
i dont know , but i think I m not completely have an internal type of self motivation , i need unfortunately to external motivator for giving more from my self , but not always it depends
If it is not in the inside you´ll never find it out side. We do not see the world as it is, we see the world as we are. Self motivation is like bathing and washing your teeth, you have to do every day. do not expect someone or something to do it for. When there are positive stimuli it is easy to stay motivated. Remarkable is when the stimuli are negative and yet you dont lose the attitude, this is the true nature of resilience. Answer: Internal stimulus
