How Does the Motivation Work?

Why do we do what we do ? It is known that we neither passively receive the external influences, nor react mechanically to the demands of everyday life, but according to certain inner requirements which determine us to be selective in relation to the adaptation's exigencies.
To understand and explain behavior, we naturally ask: why do we do what we do? What are the causes for which we adopted a certain conduct ? Is there any rationale for how we proceed?
Here are just some questions to which we do not always find suitable answers.
We ask, too: What is our inner impulses to act in a certain way? How is it that sometimes we work against us?
If we call the concept of motivation, we will be able to find answers to these questions, we will find the causes of various behaviors and the logic behind behaviors apparently devoid of explanations.
Any human activity is based on a minimum of internal incentive role of boosting the environment and orientation.
We define motivation as all necessary internal states of the body that stimulates and guides behavior in order to satisfy them. In the category "states the need " we can include motivational forms, such as necessity, reasons, interests, beliefs, ideals, namely a set of factors that enable, guide and regulate actions.
Motivation plays the role of "filter " through whom we receive and absorb external influences and internal motivation by becoming "leaky " from the psychological point of view only to those stimuli that are able to meet our needs.
While some needs are innate (the biological), included in our genetic dowry, others are acquired during our interaction with the physical and social-cultural environment(ex. need of comfort, information, browsing the Internet, the affirmation of self).
The study of motivation presents a special significance in view of obtaining success in the actions we take. The relationship of correspondence between a certain amount of intensity and motivation for a certain level of difficulty of the task, is called the optimum motivtional.
To be optimally motivated means to be mobilized so as to achieve maximum efficiency in business.
Achieving a optimum motivational state depends on a number of factors: how we perceive the difficulty and complexity of tasks, how we evaluate opportunities (underestimation, correct estimation and overestimation), the type of nervous system (strong or weak), personality factors (type of temperament, character traits).

Motivation and Affectivity

Unlike animals that are being predominantly reactive acting instinctively, the man is a being par excellence active, intervening on the environment in which lives through the experience, capacity forecasting and planning, and especially under the impulse of its multiple needs continue amplification.
Human relationships with the environment, in the complex process of adaptation, are due to his cognitive abilities (perception, representation, thinking, memory, imagination), but also to his setting functions.
Between processes in an adjustment of human activity, will have a supreme position, but should not be minimized the importance of motivation and emotionality, the two basic components , fundamental for all human actions.
Motivation is defined as the phenomenon of mental set that consists of all domestic needs (arising as a result of energy imbalances) which supports and triggers human activity.
Affectivity is the set that reflects the relationships between subject and object in the form of subjective experience, that results from satisfying or unsatisfying a necessity.
So, if motivation can be considered the engine of our mental life, affectivity constitute its energetic support , an echo or resonance in a subject of acting stimuli from the outside or inside, depending on the individual's internal state at a time. Affectivity reflects the relationship between the subject and the object, which justifies why the same object causes different emotional experience.
As an entity in the same time biological, psychological and social man is normally characterized by a multitude of necessity, reasons, interests, beliefs, but that may not meet the full and immediate, which cause them a diversity of emotional experience simpler or more complex, positive or negative.
Motivation and emotionality, which have an inborn base , evolve from simple forms to more complex forms and vary under the influence of environmental conditions. To organic and biological needs, gradually add the security, affiliation, self accomplishment and esteem needs as the pyramid needs created by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow shows.
All these types of needs may signal at a time, a state of saturation or supra saturation, which causes different emotional experience: either dissatisfaction, inconvenience, or delight, pleasure.