Break Time!
This week we discussed ideas about how to improve motivation for assignments and work. In the past, I have been exclusively motivated by my grades this sometimes meant that if I didn’t see the value of an assignment and it wasn’t worth a lot of points I often would not do it. It crazy though with assignments like these were I am only motivated by grades I typically wait until the last minute and it is not always my best work. However, on the rare chance that I am motivated by my self interest I will jump at the opportunity to complete the assignment and I will sink a lot more time and resources into making sure it done well even going above and beyond what is required at times. Quite frankly this shows me that I am kinda short-sighted, I only care about the immediate gratification I get out of something not the long term benefits. Moving forward I plan to shift my motivation from these short term benefits to my long terms goals. Looking at an assignment and telling myself I need to do well on it get a good grade in this class won’t motivate me as much as telling myself I need to do well on this assignment so I can reach my long term career goals. However I am not completely confident in this method either, so I am also gonna throw in some extremely short term goals like breaks. Complete this part of the assignment and you can take a 10-minute break to do something else you want to do. However, I can’t be trusted to keep myself reliable on this system so I am gonna use some online timers featured in this week’s lesson in order to keep my self accountable. I also like the idea of going to the gym more so I am gonna try that as well.
keep in touch,
Alex
Sources:
https://tomato-timer.com/
https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2011/06/how-to-take-a-study-break/