Sung Hoon Motivation

I asked myself if I am motivated by anything when I am doing school work. And I answered to myself that I am not often motivated when doing work. I do my work because I have to do it and there was no specific reason that motivates me. This tech project is probably one of the things I am doing because I have to do. This project sure helps me a lot in terms of studying skills but it is not enough to fully improve my motivation. Maybe I would say that the grade(GPA) could be something that makes me do my work. However, if a class’ material is not interesting to me or I failed a test, I lose motivation so easily. I think most people are the same. I tend to be motivated to do stuff either when I am interested in it or when I can do it easily. In fact, to me, it is always fun to study Japanese because I am interested in learning it but it is not always fun to study statistics because it is relatively difficult. I needed to think of some factors can constantly motivate myself.

I decided on trying academic fears Exploring Rewards to analyze what makes me want to do work.

Academic Fears

Academic fears 1. Worst outcome 2. Best outcome 3. Action needed

Not understanding the material

1. I end up learning nothing from the class. Get a bad grade.

2. Understand the material until the end of semester

3. Review from the beginning to catch up. Go to see TAs, professors for help

Afraid if I would get a bad grade for a project or a test

1. I give up doing or studying

2. I get a satisfying result after finishing.

3. Do my best. Get help from a peer who is good at it.

Too much to do(study)

1. Give up studying or end up getting done a little bit then fail

2. Finish everything well and get a feeling of achievement

3. Chunk the task, use study guides

I thought of the rewards I could possibly get from achieving goal. Just thinking about them made me gloat.

I checked mostly on ‘yes’. I realized now there is not too many reasons for me not to be motivated.

Doing this motivation blog, it was surprising to get to know that even motivation can be controlled by analyzing the factors and the solutions. Now, I will try to finish up this semester well with motivated mind.