Motivation

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This whole section on motivation made a lot of sense to me.  With homework and things of that sort, where you are forced to do something, it seems to take FOREVER to do it.  But with work that I actually enjoy doing, it takes no time at all.  This really shows is the grades of the classes I enjoy.  In math classes I have always had lower scores than in english classes, which I enjoy taking, for example.  I can also see how the motivation of money can only go so far.  It might be fine for small things, but if we already have enough money to sustain ourselves we are not going to be motivated to do work we hate just for money.  Money does not bring us happiness!

"Rewards force us to consider our work in a limited way, even work that we might gain great satisfaction from doing without the promise of reward."

"Once a reasonable standard of living is achieved, rewards and punishment not only don’t motivate us to do more, better, or faster, they often demotivate us."

 Quotes from : http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/the-science-of-motivation.html