does motivation to change come from the outside or within?

Answer 1

The catalyst is the "outside".
The change is from within.

Answer 2

It can come from both depending on what the person wants to change for. The motivation that comes from within is usually more pure and genuine because it shows that YOU decided that there was something about you that you wanted to make different so therefore it would usually last longer than an external motivation.

Answer 3

Sometimes both. But I think the real power to change is within us. Outside support and help are always a good factor to motivate us, however, we can't change anything until we make up our own minds to do so.

Answer 4

Both. Motivators can be intrinsic (from within) or extrinsic (from outside).

As an example of an intrinsic motivation, let's say someone has been doing the same task for quite a while, but then thinks of a better way to do that task. Externally, all things are still as they were before; but internally, the subject is motivated to try a new way of doing something to make their job easier or better.

As an example of an extrinsic motivator, we could look at response to a change in environment. Someone faced with change in their life or circumstances could resist changing themselves, or they might adapt as a response to that change.

It gets confusing because we can mistake externally motivated changes as internally motivated ones. Let's take environmental protection as en example: a bunch of people are getting really hyped about recycling, they really believe in this stuff, it's really important. You might say they're internally motivated, right? But their motivation to change could be described as being in response to a growing awareness that their environment - their external circumstances - is changing; and that we need to change ourselves in response to that, or we risk catastrophe. This is, then, an external motivator.

Answer 5

Everything comes within. Your whole perception of the universe comes from within.

If you think that something from outside motivates you, you are actually the one who created that motivation as you see it. Something within you manifested that idea/event/whatever in the way that you saw it.

You know what I'm saying?

Answer 6

Motivation as with the desire to change comes from within, anything and everything you see externally is but the universe reflecting yourself back to you! Take control of your mind, it is controlled by you, take command and instruct it to fulfill your dreams and desires, then the external world will change to reflect your wishes. It's not easy but it is possible, Be determined to live the life that you choose, make the choice and don't take your concentration off that goal, no matter what you feel, make up your mind to be happy, to manifest your destiny!

Answer 7

True motivation to change comes from within. Because if you really don't want to do it you're not going too, you will just keep putting it off until you don't want to do it anymore or it's no longer important to you.

Answer 8

I think it's a combination of the two.

However, motivation from within is ALWAYS necessary for change to happen.

Answer 9

Motivation is something that happens as one of two desires:
1. move away from pain, and
2. move towards pleasure
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These emotions are felt 'within', and so motivation comes from within.
On the other hand, the circumstances that cause us to react with pain or pleasure are often seen as independent outside occurrences, and so one could argue that motivation is driven by outside stimuli.

Answer 10

it can be either way. if someone is telling you to change that is from the outside but if your changing because you need to that is within...