Title: What Do You Enjoy Doing? | Psychology Today
Headings: What Do You Enjoy Doing?
Art Markman Ph.D.
What Do You Enjoy Doing?
A challenge can be an enjoyable thing.

Content: The starting point for this paper is the observation that you perform activities for different reasons. E xtrinsically motivated activities are done because there is some goal that they achieve. A student might go to a lecture, for example, because she has to go in order to get credit for the class. Intrinsically motivated activities are done because there is something inherently rewarding about doing them. The first study in this paper examined an intrinsically motivated activity-playing chess. Most chess players play the game, because they enjoy it. The researchers tracked 87 male chess players using a chess website over a 2-week period. On average, players played about 16 games in that period. After each game, the players rated their enjoyment of the game. Two main factors influenced players' enjoyment of the games they played.