Intrinsic motivation: Tamim deciding he is too limited in his shots and working endlessly with Salahuddin to improve his leg-side game.
Extrinsic motivation: wanting an IPL contract and sulking because he's not getting picked.
Intrinsic motivation: Shakib as a child deciding he wanted to play in a World Cup and prove himself as one of the best and picking cricket even though his whole family was football crazy
Extrinsic motivation: Arguing with the coach because he wants to spend time on commercials and foreign teams.
Our problem isn't that we don't produce enough people with the hunger or motivation to be champions. Our problem is because we have such a paucity of them, that we make them out to be kings when they are princes. We win a ODI series and players get land plots. Why? They are getting paid to win already aren't they? Instead of our society demanding that Shak & Tik become undoubtedly world class, we were too busy spoiling them when they had just become international class. Absolute adulation corrupts absolutely.
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