I should expound on that... I have literally sat at a desk, yelling at myself out loud to write the simple one page report that was due two weeks ago and failed to do it. No matter how I tried to convince myself to just do it or to tackle just one simple thing about it I could not force myself to act. I was highly motivated to do it because passing the course was on the line. The next day, something clicked and without thinking about it I knocked it out in about 10 minutes and then took 3 days to actually hand the damn thing in.
The next day, something clicked and without thinking about it I knocked it out in about 10 minutes and then took 3 days to actually hand the damn thing in.
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u/[deleted] May 30 '17
The motivation would not be there, because what we perceive as "motivation" is partly the result of those executive functions.
Maybe you mean that the desire for the result of the action is there, and the intention to act, but not the motivation.