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Motivation is not a personality trait but a biology, and when that biology fails a person can lose motivation entirely.

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motivation What makes effort feel worth it: the neuroscience of wanting to act, apathy, dopamine, and habit.

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  1. Masud Husain

    Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford

    it was only about 15 years ago I started beginning to be aware that there may be a an important biology underlying motivation and when that biology goes wrong, it can lead to loss of motivation and even pathological apathy.

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