To hack motivation for learning, you apply the motivation equation as with anything else: use success spirals to increase Expectancy, learn something important to you in a fun way for high Value, avoid Impulsiveness with precommitment (especially the burnt ships technique), and focus on the learning process rather than the end goal so that you can learn ten new words by tomorrow instead of being fluent in Chinese in two years. But the other critical component is to use good learning methods, so that it’s not only fun, but that you also make rapid progress.
