Can Someone Who Teases You, Increase Your Motivation?

Ahmet Arda Orak
2 min readJul 16, 2021

I will start simply what is motivation:

Motivation is the process that starts and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. … Motivation involves the biological, emotional, social, and cognitive forces that activate behavior. In everyday usage, the term “motivation” is frequently used to describe why a person does something.

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How People Get Motivated

According to my, there are two types of motivation. Reverse motivation and direct motivation. But most people get motivated directly.

1.Direct Motivation

Direct motivation is getting motivated by praising and congratulating. Most people like getting praised and they work more and get motivated.

The simplest example is the “Employee of the month” race. Employees work more for getting congratulated and also for extra pay.

2.Reverse Motivation

Reverse motivation is the opposite of direct motivation. Someone who gets motivated reversely works more when someone doesn't care about his/her success or mocks his/her goals.

And also I am a reverse motivated person I get motivated and work harder when someone teases me. Now I want to tell you my short memo.

Short Period

Yesterday I met with my friend and we chit chat about life and what we are doing nowadays. I tell him that I am working on some new projects and also about my future goals.

But after he sad that you can’t achieve your goals, you don't have that, you don't know that and kinda things.

Actually, after the conversation I got angry but I didn't tell him anything. I understand his thoughts.

But today I started working harder and now I believe more in my goals than before. And my pretty advice is don't get unmotivated cause of other's thoughts.

See you!🙋‍♂️

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Ahmet Arda Orak
Ahmet Arda Orak

Written by Ahmet Arda Orak

Entrepreneur 📍 Leader At Young Leaders Over The Horizon 📍 Web Developer 📍 Mobile App Developer

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