2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Today I had a chance to participate in a discussion about motivating students to learn. And, among many theories, one was voiced, which I would like to ponder in this article, since it can be transferred to other areas of human activity.
If we omit all the other elements that form the student's motivation (study group, teacher, university conditions, friends, family, and so on), it is important how a person formulates the goal of his activity.
This theory is based on the idea that the human brain perceives abstract plans poorly enough and cannot normally form a strategy for achieving the final goal. This is due to the inability to decompose abstractions into their components, as we can do with specific things.
For example:
You can often hear from students a desire to get a quality education in order to have good earnings in the future. However, there is no specificity in this goal - it is not known what “good earnings” means, in how far the “future”, why and in what way this money will be earned.
A person with an indefinite, abstract, goal, of course, will quickly lose motivation, because, in fact, he will not have any specific goal. This means that there will be no action plan.
According to this theory, it would be much more correct and logical to compose this desire as follows:
“My goal: in“x”years after graduation from the university to have a monthly salary in the area of“y”dollars. To do this, I need to: get knowledge and skills "a" and get a job on the robot "c" ".
Having a fairly clear plan of action, it is much easier for the brain to assess the level of energy expenditure required to achieve a set goal. A person can control the number of stages passed along the way and, thus, maintain their motivation.
Of course, this "technique" can be applied not only to something material, such as money, but also to other spheres of human activity, such as: self-realization (find yourself), social relations (find your love), creativity (create something new) and so on. The main problem, in my opinion, is the specification of such goals, since this is strictly individual and can change depending on the period of a person's life, and sometimes, it is simply impossible without a sufficiently deep introspection and self-knowledge. In theory, a psychologist can help you with this.
How do you like this theory? Have you heard it before? And what do you think is more important "motivation" or "organization"?
If we omit all the other elements that form the student's motivation (study group, teacher, university conditions, friends, family, and so on), it is important how a person formulates the goal of his activity.
This theory is based on the idea that the human brain perceives abstract plans poorly enough and cannot normally form a strategy for achieving the final goal. This is due to the inability to decompose abstractions into their components, as we can do with specific things.
For example:
You can often hear from students a desire to get a quality education in order to have good earnings in the future. However, there is no specificity in this goal - it is not known what “good earnings” means, in how far the “future”, why and in what way this money will be earned.
A person with an indefinite, abstract, goal, of course, will quickly lose motivation, because, in fact, he will not have any specific goal. This means that there will be no action plan.
According to this theory, it would be much more correct and logical to compose this desire as follows:
“My goal: in“x”years after graduation from the university to have a monthly salary in the area of“y”dollars. To do this, I need to: get knowledge and skills "a" and get a job on the robot "c" ".
Having a fairly clear plan of action, it is much easier for the brain to assess the level of energy expenditure required to achieve a set goal. A person can control the number of stages passed along the way and, thus, maintain their motivation.
Of course, this "technique" can be applied not only to something material, such as money, but also to other spheres of human activity, such as: self-realization (find yourself), social relations (find your love), creativity (create something new) and so on. The main problem, in my opinion, is the specification of such goals, since this is strictly individual and can change depending on the period of a person's life, and sometimes, it is simply impossible without a sufficiently deep introspection and self-knowledge. In theory, a psychologist can help you with this.
How do you like this theory? Have you heard it before? And what do you think is more important "motivation" or "organization"?
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