Intrinsic Motivation - Rocky 3 (Part 2)

Intrinsic Motivation - Rocky 3, The Movie

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Picture 1 - Rocky Balboa always had gratitude and appreciation towards his coach Mickey. He was loyal to Mickey at all times.

When James “Clubber” Lang (Mr T) won the Heavyweight Boxing title from Rocky Balboa, Mr T was feeling on top of the world. The former knew that he could win Rocky before the fight itself. As for Rocky, he had double tragedy – one was the losing of the bout title and the other was on losing his coach, Mickey, who dies in hospital due to a heart attack.

Picture 2 - James "Clubber" Lang had the hunger to win but he was also very arrogant.

After a long period of time, Rocky remained as a dejected person. This went on until Rocky’s former rival Apollo Creed came to meet him. Apollo Creed will open the eyes of Rocky by telling the latter’s reason for losing to Mr T, Clubber Lang. Apollo told that Rocky lost the edge by not having ‘the eye of the tiger’ and hence losing took place. He told that the hunger was no more there in Rocky as was in the past. Over time, Rocky in fact became complacent and in the process lost the touch of winning. Eventually, Rocky had to lose to a brash, arrogant, outspoken and immensely strong Mr T. After hearing this Rocky, in the end, agrees to go under Apollo Creed’s coaching in order to win back the lost title.

Picture 3 - Apollo Creed will teach Rocky new things like rhythm and speed in the film Rocky 3. Most importantly, Apollo enables Rocky to get back 'the eye of the tiger. 

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The story then reveals how Rocky had to go back to the basics from where he started. However, the fear of losing repeatedly kept playing in the mind such that he was not keen in fighting anymore. Through his wife’s advice of not to fear in losing, Rocky gets mental relieve and starts to train very seriously, with great enthusiasm and eventually gets back his lost ‘eye of the tiger’, the great thirst and hunger to win.

On the day of the re-match fight with Mr T, Rocky will do the reverse by making Mr T angry and in the process, with better mental and physical preparedness, Rocky will finally emerge as the victor of the competition.

Pic 4- Moral of the story - When a person has the 'eye of the tiger' to win, victory is certain