The word to motivate we use it when we want express that this or that action, a comment, among other possibilities, were the reason that caused a response. With your hurtful comments you did nothing more than motivate his natural anger.
It should be noted that the reason it always stands as a cause or the reason that will trigger a way of proceeding, or failing that, the presence of something or someone. For example, if someone is hungry, it is the reason that will lead them to prepare a meal. Laura wants to graduate yes or yes this year, that will then be the reason why she spends very long hours studying.
Meanwhile, this reason is popularly known as motivation and it stands without a doubt as the reason why people carry out certain actions, because behind the fulfillment of each action, each step, each objective, will come the realization of that desire or plan.
If there is no such motivation, which is what ultimately drives us to make an effort and overcome possible obstacles, it will be difficult for us to reach the satisfaction of an objective quickly and with impetus.
Many times money fulfills the function of motivation and by the way, many organizations and companies use it to motivate their employees and thus achieve better performance.
Another use that we also attribute to this term allows us to indicate the encouragement that is given to someone to be interested in a certain activity, task, profession and that has to do with the interest, capacity or inclination that we observe in that person and that then prompts us to mention it and encourage him to to see it and act in that sense. If Juan hadn’t motivated me as he did, I don’t think I would have decided to write the book..
Then, in order to the senses that this term holds, we find a variety of synonyms, while the most used are to cause, to indicate the production of something, and to stimulate, to express the incitement that is carried out on someone to to carry out some action.
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