Veiga-Branco, Augusta2019-04-042019-04-042018Veiga-Branco, Augusta (2018). Program unit 9 - emotional competence – self motivation . In Psycho-educational and socialintervention program for parents.Roménia: Lumen. p. 104-109. ISBN 978-973-166-508-5978-973-166-508-5http://hdl.handle.net/10198/19208Motivation - Process responsible for the intensity, direction and persistence of a person's efforts to reach a certain goal. Self-motivation – emotional arousal that each of us uses in ourselves to achieve something. Autotelic motivation - the energy we feel to mobilize ourselves for the sheer enjoyment of an activity itself. It can be known as ―flow‖ in some activity. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) Exotelic motivation - the energy we feel to mobilize ourselves to an activity in order to get at some external reward. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) "The greatest discovery of my generation is that any human being can change his life by changing his attitude." (William James 1842-1910)engEmotional competenceSelf motivationbook part