Hello guys, after learning this week’s topic, I learned numerous knowledge in the field of motivation and avoiding distractions. From my perspective, when we talk about the topic of motivation, I am always thinking about the two sides of motivation. The first one is intrinsic motivation, which mainly comes from a student’s inner part thoughts, such as interest, talent, and self-inspiration. At the same time, the other part is extrinsic motivation, which mainly consists of benefits, profits, and achievement. As for me, every time, when I am trying to pay more attention to one specific course instead of the other subjects in my course list, this behavior can be defined as the intrinsic motivation. For example, I remembered that I showed the trait of intrinsic motivation in the Marketing subject last semester. At that time, I read the books and essays of the marketing’s for hours per day during the time that I was taking the Marketing course at the Fisher College of Business. Therefore, I think the interest is the best teacher for everyone, we should evoke our interest so that we can find our talent and passion step by step.
When we refer to the term ‘distraction,’ the first following term is always the Internet. During the COVID-19 pandemic period, we have to use the online course platform to finish the rest courses of this semester. However, people are always been distracted during the time when there are taking the online course. To solve this problem, I think we can use the lockdown browser to solve the problem. Even though the lockdown browser is for testing, we can still use their function to impose us to avoid the distraction from the entertained website and video game.