The Importance of Conscious Framing in Motivation

Theories like learned industriousness show how even a complex personality trait might be partly an outcome of subtle reward contingencies in the environment. Cultural and sociological factors can make a huge difference in motivation beyond individual psychology. The high performance cycle suggests that our achievement motivations may exhibit positive fiback. Set hard goals and commit to them, and our performance increases. This encourages setting harder goals and ambitions. Increase self efficacy, an essential concept in bandura's social cognition. Theory of motivation also creates a positive feeback lop. Feel like you can't do anything, and your motivation diminishes. And this makes it harder to do the very things you believe you can’t do