Quote:I don't care where I was picked, to what league I was drafted to, or how much I'm making..... if my mother comes up to me and says "I will die a slow, painful death if you don't win 5 games this season....." you can be darn sure I'm going to be more motivated to win 5 games than I was before hearing that.

 

Its my opinion of the nature of motivation. You are either fully, properly motivated or not. Properly is a key word too, screaming and shouting and jumping around wont help, killing yourself in the gym, or watching 23 hours a day of game tape and doing more harm than good wont help either. Motivation to win which makes you to prepare correctly  physically and mentally is in my humble opinion internal. Fluctuations based on external factors will of course effect motivation day by day, hour by hour but overall it should be pretty stable. 'I want to be the best so I'm going to work out hard even though I feel like crap.' or 'I want to win, so I'm not going to drink even though its my birthday.' etc. I would hope his internal motivation is already at that level. Giving an extra 5% on the weights when you are already on a high specialized plan because you're POed you didn't start isn't going to help if you are already working at a maximum level.

 

In your scenario, there would also be a whole other bunch of emotions which would play out too, anger, sadness and who knows what else. In some ways they help in other ways they wont. Its not just about wanting more and doing crazy things like throwing hail Marys into triple coverage to achieve it, because that won't work.

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