I have suffered from my neck pain for the whole week and I went to see the doctor today. I cannot reading or doing my homework for a long time every time. So for this week's blog, I will post my words and chats first. If I still have time during the weekend and my neck won't torture me any more, comic will be back.
This week, our topic is about MOTIVATION. I used Academic Fears on my ECN2O3 class and Exploring Rewards on all my courses. ( Rewards are always the same no matter what kind of courses you take).
The reason why I care about my ECN203 class so much is because Economics is my major. If I fail in this course, that's will be a totally tragedy for me. I even tried all the strategies l learned from CLS 105 on my ECN203 classes merely in the purpose of gaining better grades in this course. I really afraid of being failure in my ECN course.
Here is my chart for Academic Fears.
Since I am a visual learner, I use different colors to mark different stuffs. The worst thing that will happen in my academic is I get an F at the end of this semester. This is the signal that I won't pass the course. Since ECN 203 is the most basic course among the whole ECN courses. I really do not know what am I supposed to do in the following years for ECN courses. It's my major and I can't change my major, so I have no choices but to be successful.
In order to achieve the goal, I need to spend more time than other students on reviewing and organizing notes, talking with TAs and my professor, and even read more Economics books. To be honest, Academic fear is the biggest motivation for me on my ECN 203 .
And for my Exploring Rewards, I also make a chart for this. Here it comes.
Actually, for me, No-cost rewards are more important and valuable. Since for those things that can be purchased by money, they also do bring happiness to me. But they just kind of short-run rewards. However, No-cost rewards can give me the sense of accomplishment, a good impression of me among my friends and professors. These non-purchaseable and non-visable rewards are always my main motivation for my academic performances since my childhood until nowadays.
So, in my opinion, internal motivations are more useful and effectively than external motivations. What do you think about it?
I'm so sorry to hear about your neck, Shuyzie! I hope it feels better. Get lots of rest this weekend! I understand your fear of failing your class. It's hard when a class so vital to your major is so difficult, but you can do it!!
ReplyDeleteAww, I hope your neck feels better! I agree with you that internal motivations are more useful than external motivations.
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