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Eating Broccoli - a Lesson in Motivation
By Ryan Scholz
If you were like me as a child, broccoli was not your favorite food. My motivation to eat broccoli was
strictly as a matter of compliance. In order to get me to taste it, my parents would resort to threats, or
sometimes rewards, like getting a dessert in order to instill the motivation to eat broccoli. With this level
of motivation, the only time I would consider eating broccoli was when my parents were directly
involved and there was either a punishment or reward associated with it. In the absence of either, there
was no motivation to go beyond what was absolutely required. All of the motivation was external –
none of it was internal.
When I got older, I began eating broccoli out of a sense of obligation. If it was put in front of me at a
dinner, I would eat it. I didn’t want to insult the person who fixed the meal by refusing to eat it.
Intellectually I knew that it was good for me, so I developed some internal motivation, but it was on a
rational basis. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat broccoli, but at least would eat it if the opportunity
presented itself. It no longer took the threat of punishment or opportunity for reward to do what I know I
should do.
Later in life, as I developed a taste for broccoli and other vegetables, I eat it because I like it. I will
order broccoli or other previously distasteful vegetables because of the personal satisfaction that I
receive. The motivation is internal and emotional. This is the strongest form of motivation. I ca