What drives one person to persevere through challenges when others may give up? What do our perceptions of ourselves have to do with perseverance? Can our self-perceptions affect us without our awareness?

Write a paper 3–5 page paper that applies self-determination theory and related concepts to a problem related to motivation and performance.
Introduction
What drives one person to persevere through challenges when others may give up? What do our perceptions of ourselves have to do with perseverance? Can our self-perceptions affect us without our awareness?
For this assessment, you will explore human psychological needs and how they shape motivation. In other assessments, as well, you will return to psychological needs. This assessment will focus specifically on the idea of self-determination and nuances that make up self-determination. You’ll interact with the concepts that go into self-determination, such as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation along with others, and will apply them to a topic in psychology.