Deci and Richard M. Ryan [1] represents a broad framework for the study of human motivation and defines intrinsic and various extrinsic sources of motivation. I applied this theory to myself and examined my personal desires when looking for a new challenge, in my case being healthy. I started to wonder how important it is to embrace intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? It has been found in SDT that intrinsically motivated people are more likely to engage in tasks. As soon as I realized that choosing a key requirement to support my motivation is to keep things interesting and fun while doing the required task, which is changing my behavior towards better health, I started implementing it into my daily activity and have seen much better results than my previous one
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