Motivation Direction

What constructs of comprehension and the mental feedback system, cause motivation?

Are feedback triggers the core cause of any and all motivations?

Motivation can be considered to be basically; a drive to attempt to perform an action. By “feedback triggers”, I mean instinctual genetic neurochemical positive or negative reinforcement, for a specimen to pursue or avoid a circumstance. In my last post; Emotional Perception, I explained more of this, and how the state of mind (which we call “emotion”), resulting from feedback triggers, seems to be limited in its adaptability, based on comprehension of potential links, from the factors at hand, to alternate reinforcement triggers. If any emotional perception is limited to positive or negative feedback triggers, which are linked to the situation, does that mean motivation is as well?

Any actions taken by an individual, seem as though they should logically be driven by instinctual feedback triggers. Otherwise, there would be no incentive to perform the action. If the root cause of motivation is feedback triggers (just as any emotion), then the only adaptability for someone to change that motivation intentionally, seems to be dependant on alternate feedback triggers, which can be comprehended as being affected by the circumstances involved in the original motivation.

For eg, if Gary has the instinctual motivational positive reinforcement trigger, to gain as much money as possible (which is a subconscious adaption of an instinctive trigger), in order for him to intentionally alter that motivation, he requires an alternate positive feedback trigger to focus on. Through comprehension of the factors involved in making money, he can determine that it may not be as rationally important to him, as perhaps the positive feedback trigger to pursue a family.

These instinctive feedback triggers do adapt naturally throughout a lifetime, as subconscious influence on the individual, causes them to avoid or pursue new factors, which have been saved in memory from new experiences. This causes motivation to change naturally, through experience, but it is still the same root instinctive feedback trigger causing new factors to be saved in memory subconsciously, for the variance of factors, to be pursued. But, this is natural subconscious adaptability, rather than intentional redirection of motivation

Intentional redirection, requires conscious comprehension. And conscious comprehension requires knowledge of cause and effect of relevant factors. Therefore, to intentionally redirect motivation, there must be that knowledgeable cause and effect of the involved factors, in order to make a connection to an alternate motivation. But since motivation, or drive to pursue an achievement, seems to require a positive feedback trigger, intentional redirection of motivation seems to be limited to available connections, from present factors, to alternate positive feedback triggers.

Basically, within a situation, someone cannot simply choose to redirect their motivation to anything they want. They must rely on a perspective, resulting from comprehension of factors involved, being connected to some positive feedback trigger. For eg, Sally cannot alter her motivation toward doing her meaningless boring job, if she gets paid no money, since there is no positive feedback trigger, linked with those factors.

As positive feedback triggers seem to be the root cause of all motivation, the direction of motivation is limited to available triggers. Motivation can adapt naturally, as a result of experiences subconsciously altering the positive feedback of factors. But through conscious comprehension of positives, there can also be effective manual Motivation Direction.