Today we'll talk about a word that often flashes here and there. And you can often hear that some athlete feels very motivated, and how to understand this is not entirely clear. And the point is not that someone does not know something, but simply people began to forget Russian phrases that convey the same state. Let's talk about this and about the meaning of the word.
Meaning
One can easily imagine a situation in which there is a meeting of the heads of some 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 this. 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 takes it fromverb.
"Motivation" and clues
Further words with the same root will go, but let the reader be patient, because this is for the good of the cause. Let's give more definitions of "motive" and "motivation", respectively:
- Motive cause, cause for action.
- An argument for 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" doesn't mean what it is now. In live speech, they say this about a person who is focused on a result or goal. For example:
The footballer was very motivated in training
So 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 the verb, but the noun “motivation”. In other words, a motivated person is a result-oriented person. 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 revised from time to time. And the author, of course, must be motivated, and this is undoubtedly because such work requires a lot of attention to detail, as well as perseverance.
