Motivation

Welcome back to our wonderful studying blog. The strategy topic this week is very important because it is involved every time you do any work for any class. And that topic is MOTIVATION!! It is what drives us to up any effort into our work and it is what forces us to get out of bed for a 8:00 class when you just stayed up until 1:00. Everyone has different reasons for why they are motivated. For me, I am motivated by the fact that my parents are sacrificing a lot for me to go to SU and knowing that the harder I work now, the more successful I will be later in life. The strategies that I used this week were Exploring Rewards and Academic Fears and I used them both in my ANT 111 class. I chose these strategies for this class because I have a test coming up and I have the hardest time getting motivated because I am not interested in this subject.

In the strategy Exploring Rewards you set up rewards for yourself so that you have something to look forward to while you are working. What I did this week is when ever I work to do, I would set up a reward that interested me. For example, if I did a substantial amount of work I would reward myself with a trip to the Dinning Hall or a few games of my XBOX game. In the strategy Academic Fears, you use the fear of consequences in order to motivate you to you to push through your work. when ever I started to get distracted I would think about what would happen if I didn't do well on my test and then I would think about disappointing my parents.

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I am a visual learner so this strategy did not really affect my style of learning because these strategies were more mental. My actions involved rewarding myself for doing work and using my fears of failure to motivate myself. My materials involved only my text book and class notes. And my teacher is evaluating me by grading my test.