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Extrinsic motivation is intrinsic motivation that you project onto an outside agent. You're not motivated by a job's salary, you're motivated by the nice thing

• coldtea 10y ago
  >You're not motivated by a job's salary, you're motivated by the nice things you can do with money--things you decided are intrinsically more important than the things you can do while broke. We're not talking about the same kind of motivation, obviously. We're talking about motivation in the work itself vs being motivated to work because of others things you want to do with the money. To make it an extreme example, in the first case you'd do the work even for free, or even pay to do it (like many people pay to do some hobbies), even if you had all the money you need.