Today we’ll talk about a word that quite often flashes here and there. And you can often hear that some athlete feels very motivated, and this, as you understand, is not entirely clear. And it’s not that someone doesn’t know something, but people just began to forget Russian phrases that convey the same state. Let's talk about this and the meaning of the word.
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One can easily imagine a situation in which there is a meeting of the leaders of an enterprise and one of them says: “Innokenty Persikov seemed very motivated to me, and this can play in his favor.” The rest either agree or not, but in any case, nothing hurts our ears and eyes, right?
Now let's see what the dictionary thinks about it. So, the meaning of the word “motivated”: “Give motives, arguments in favor of something.” An attentive reader could notice that the adjective does not have its own meaning and it occupies it in the verb.
"Motivation" and the key to unraveling
The words with the same root will follow, but let the reader tolerate, for this is for the good of the cause. We also give the definitions of “motive” and “motivation”, respectively:
- The incentive reason, the reason for action.
- An argument in favor of something.
These were the meanings of the motive.
And motivation is "the presence of a causal relationship between actions, actions, phenomena."
As you can see, “motivated” does not mean at all what is meant by it now. In live speech, they say this about a person who is aimed at a result or goal. For instance:
- The football player was very motivated in training.
That is, his motivation was high. The search for the modern meaning of the object of study leads us to the fact that the key to understanding is not a verb, but the noun “motivation”. In other words, motivated is a person, a goal-oriented result. But in the dictionary, the adjective applies exclusively to abstract entities. Hence the contradiction between vocabulary and language practice. But books, as you know, are written by people, so dictionaries need to be reviewed from time to time. And the author, of course, must be motivated, and this is undoubtedly because such a work requires a lot of attention to detail, as well as perseverance.