In order to understand intrinsic motivation, Csikszentmihalyi studied self-rewarding, orautotelic, activities.

为了理解内在动机，Csikszentmihalyi研究了自我奖励（self-rewarding），或称自成目的（autotelic），活动（activities）。

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Thefeeling of self accomplishment you get when you finish what you started is byfar one of the most rewarding simple pleasures life has to offer.

在你完成着手做的事情时所得到的自我成就感是至今为止生活所给予的最令人满足的简单的快乐之一。

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The power of the Grant study was that it had 73 years of real behaviour - not just self-reporting - with which to judge its notions of a rewarding life.

格兰特研究的力量在于，它包含了73年的真实行为——而非自我报告——以及据此对令人满足之生活这一定义进行的判断。

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You may well question whether work was ever as self- rewarding as this contrast suggests.

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"Whilst Waste Watch believes encouraging people to recycle is a good thing, there is also evidence that suggests self-rewarding people for good behaviours may encourage people only to act in the future if rewarded, rather than acting because they care or value society and the environment, " he said.

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"Self-disclosure is extra rewarding, " said Harvard neuroscientist Diana Tamir, who conducted the experiments with Harvard colleague Jason Mitchell.

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