124 liking, that is, pleasure, and wanting desiring that…
124 liking, that is, pleasure, and wanting desiring that is, motivation, are produced by two distinct interconnected subsystems within our reward system. Beverage speculated that humans are built that way too. We have a pleasure register in our reward system are liking circuit, but we have to be programmed to pursue what we like. and so we have a separate wanting Cerk circuitry in our reward system to determine whether we are motivated enough to pursue any particular instance of pleasure.
— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation) · Emotional by Leonard mlodinow