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Definitions of Human Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Motivation

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Definitions of human Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Motivation





Individuals and professionals alike continuously develop by improving their abilities and understanding through interaction with the surrounding world.

An organismic worldview argues that, in order to broadly understand the world around them, humans naturally seek out new sensory experiences over time and try to expand their skills.

— R. W. White


Visualizing and structuring people's motivations through service design tools, methods, and processes so that they can understand, encourage, and guide human behavior — and the proposal that service design thinking can develop innovative, democratic, and practicable solutions for more complex, social, and ecological problems.

— Service Design Textbook (p.309)

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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