![[SelfDeterminationTheory.png]] ## Brief Freedom in commitment. We have a inner drive to make decisions and act to hold control over our own life. ## 3 fuels that are required for the experience of self-determination - Autonomy Desire to be causal agents of one's own life and act in harmony with one's integrated self or psychological liberty and freedom of internal will. - Competence If you are to make autonomes choices and own them then you need to feel the competence to make those choices and act on them - Relatedness Will to interact with, be connected to, and experience caring for others. We perfer to make autonomes choices in a commitment context either to people or ideas ## Opposite - Pressured to do a certain action - Controlled by others, could be a manager who directs your work - Policies in the organisation that conflicts with your internal will ## Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory