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Health is thus the intrinsic good that makes each of those activities extrinsically good.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Activities that are driven primarily by these three basic factors are considered intrinsically motivated; extrinsically motivated actions are undertaken to gain rewards or avoid punishment.

From Slate • Jul. 26, 2017

What they found is that the purely intrinsic motivated people outperformed the purely extrinsically motivated people.

From Time • Jan. 14, 2015

“It’s not easy when kids are extrinsically motivated by a parent,” says Tom Jackson, president of the Core Golf Academy in Orlando, Fla., which has 51 students from all over the world, including China.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2013

Outdoor games are not only productive of a keener delight to most people, they are extrinsically good as well, conducing to health, quickness of wit, self-control, and other goods.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant