Module mainly talks about how to build and sustain motivation. To reach my personal academic goals, maintaining motivated is also important. I think the most important thing I learned in this module is to find my motivation. Sometimes people are confused about where the motivation comes from. This module identifies two sources of motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic source of motivation is basically your own interest, which means you are curious and interested in something and that motivate you to do the things you are doing. Extrinsic sources of motivation are grades, punishment, money, and other external factors. Basically, extrinsic source of motivation is you want to get good grades, otherwise you would fail that course and other consequences. Or maybe you will be punished if you do not finish that, and that motivates you. I think identifying the source of motivation is very important and that should be the first step of building motivation. For example, I am a finance major student, and I find that my motivation of studying finance specialization course is the fact that I like a job in finance field, and my own goal is to work as a financial analyst, so that motivates me. It actually gives me more motivation compared to external source of motivation because I am just “afraid” of the consequences.
Reference:
https://osu.instructure.com/courses/60277/pages/lesson-module-7?module_item_id=2828265