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Essay / Intrinsic and Extrinsic Essay - 1111
Autonomy is everyone's personal motivation. The dictionary definition is autonomy, noun; the right or condition of self-government. “Mastery – the desire to get better at something that matters.” (Rose 111) Mastery is the effort to perfect the goal, the asymptote equation. “This is the nature of mastery: mastery is asymptote. You can get close to it. You can enter there. You can get really, really close to it. But like Cézanne, you can never touch it” (Pink 127) And the goal is the drive to achieve intrinsic goals. “Purpose provides the activating energy for living...I think evolution played a role in selecting people who felt like they were doing something beyond themselves.” (Rose 134) Motivation 3.0 affects an individual's motivation and ability to succeed by giving them the internal drive to strive to do more and do better. The growth mindset, if you will, allows them to get better and better at something that is not the best but at least an increasing form when the person gets there. Their ability to succeed is what makes Motivation 3.0 the upgrade, as Pink calls it: “Motivation 3.0 starts with a different hypothesis. It assumes that people want to be responsible – and that ensuring they are in control of their task, their time, their technique, and their team is a path to that destination” (Pink 107)4. In “Success,” what is Pearse’s definition of success? From what point of view