This is intrinsic motivation, and it's a key part of lifelong learning.

这是内在动机，也是终身学习的关键部分。

Once your basic needs have been met, however, then intrinsic motivation becomes far more significant, says MacRae.

麦克雷说，一旦你的基本需求得到满足，内在动机就会变得更加重要。

Intrinsic motivation comes from within and allows an individual to pursue their interests and passions.

内在动机来自内部， 允许个人追求自己的兴趣和激情。

Health care is full of strong intrinsic motivations.

医疗保健充满了强大的内在动力。

Natural curiosity is sometimes referred to as 'intrinsic motivation'.

天生的好奇心有时被称为“内在动机”。

Plus, goals can destroy intrinsic motivation, meaning that you stop doing something because you want to and start doing it because you have to.

此外，目标会破坏内生动力，也就是说你会停止做那些可做可不做的事情，而着手做必须要做的事情。

They develop an intrinsic motivation that transcends the pursuit of external accolades.

他们发展出一种内在的动力，超越了对外部荣誉的追求。

None of these reasons reflect much intrinsic motivation, however, so why not choose an activity that is slightly less strenuous but far more pleasurable?

但是，这些原因都没有反映出内在动机，所以为什么不选择一个稍微不那么费力但更令人愉快的活动呢？

According to the widely cited Self-Determination Theory (or SDT) , the answer to why some people love their work more than others is intrinsic motivation.

根据被广泛引用的自我决定理论（简称 SDT），为什么有些人比其他人更热爱自己的工作，答案就是内在激励。

(Laughter) They took a perfectly strong intrinsic motivation not to be late, and they cheapened it.

（笑声） 他们有一个非常强烈的内在动机不迟到，他们贬低了它。

But labelling obesity as a disease " risks reducing autonomy, disempowering and robbing people of the intrinsic motivation that is such an important enabler of change."

但是将肥胖视为一种疾病 “可能会降低人们的自主权，削弱和剥夺人们的内在动力，而这种动力是推动改变的重要因素。”

We will be less likely to take external feedback to heart if we do things online out of intrinsic motivations.

如果我们出于内在动机在网上做事，我们就不太可能将外部反馈放在心上。

(Just think of a time when you have been so absorbed in an activity that you haven't noticed time passing.) This is known as " intrinsic" motivation.

（想想当你全神贯注于某项活动而没有注意到时间流逝的时候。）这就是所谓的“内在”动机。

So it seems that the key to motivating children, especially the young ones, might come from stimulating that intrinsic motivation.

因此，激励孩子的关键，尤其是年幼的孩子，可能来自于激发内在的动机。

You can't rely on " intrinsic motivation"  alone, which, in the context of artificial intelligence, typically comes from exploring new or unusual situations.

你不能仅仅依靠“内在动机” ，在人工智能的背景下， 这通常来自探索新的或不寻常的情况。

And in fact, the more we try to use extrinsic motivations like that, goal-oriented motivations like that, it does appear as though those begin to actually diminish your intrinsic motivations.

事实上，我们越是尝试使用这样的外在动机，像这样的目标导向型动机，似乎这些确实开始削弱你的内在动机。

Extrinsic motivations depend on results that are out of our control while intrinsic motivations depend on things we could do that are under our control.

外在动机取决于我们无法控制的结果，而内在动机取决于我们可以做的事情，这些事情是我们可以控制的。

According to SDT, a job needs to be interesting, provide the right amount of challenge and novelty, and meet three psychological needs to produce and maintain intrinsic motivation: autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

根据自我决定理论，一份工作需要有趣，提供适当的挑战和新颖性，并满足三种心理需求以产生和维持内在激励：自主感、胜任感、归属感。

You know, when we think about reflecting on reasons why we're doing it, having that kind of intrinsic motivation that comes from within, managing those negative thoughts, the perseverance, the grit to keep going.

你知道，当我们思考为什么要这么做的时候，就会有一种发自内心的内在动力，管理好那些消极的想法，坚持不懈，勇往直前。

I think that one of the dangers there that Japan is facing in the long term is that they've taken that intrinsic motivation and they've translated it into something that's extrinsic now.

我认为，从长远来看，日本面临的危险之一是，他们已经将这种内在动机转化为外在的东西。