Curious George...Was he only curious because he wanted a banana?

As my background is in the Social Sciences, when Prof. Lankes started discussing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation I became excited.  Not that I wasn't excited before, mind you!

To me my motivation for learning has always been intrinsic.  I have always been a curious person.  I never needed my parents to give me money for every "A" I earned on my report card.  I would feel disappointed or satisfied by the grade I earned not by the reward I received.  Although I might be in the minority according to this recent article...Pay-grade

Now, there are two schools of thought on this (I am being very simplistic, there are many schools of thought on this) but in the broad sense, Why was I always a curious child...Was it Nature or Nurture? Did my environment shape who I was or did my genes?  Well, obviously if I knew the answer I wouldn't be writing this blog entry, I would be dusting my Nobel Prize and sitting on my pile of money.  But I digress; anyway this got me thinking.

How, as a librarian, could I make my clientele more intrinsically motivated to use the library?  Then I thought...does it even matter what the motivation for using the library is...as long as people are coming?  Is it just enough to get "butts in the seats?"