Your framing of Obligation vs Aspiration and the defining you assign feel like they align nicely with extrinsic vs intrinsic motivations.
From my own experiences, a nuance I would match up with your pseudo-obligation is recognizing that I can be experiencing a mixture of motivations simultaneously, and there's something fascinating about watching for and recognizing the ways that I'm being moved to action by a shifting mixture of motivations over the course of a drawn out project.
Thank you for the thought piece and for sharing your insights!
Your framing of Obligation vs Aspiration and the defining you assign feel like they align nicely with extrinsic vs intrinsic motivations.
From my own experiences, a nuance I would match up with your pseudo-obligation is recognizing that I can be experiencing a mixture of motivations simultaneously, and there's something fascinating about watching for and recognizing the ways that I'm being moved to action by a shifting mixture of motivations over the course of a drawn out project.
Thank you for the thought piece and for sharing your insights!