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Chapter 8 Goals & Motivation
Chapter Summary:
Motivation and goals
Goal setting for life
3 Steps to setting study goals
Motivating yourself
We need objectives. We need focus and direction. Most of all, we need
the sense of accomplishment that comes from achieving what we set out
to do…it’s important to make plans, even if we decide to change them, so
that a least for the moment we know where we’re going and we can have a
sense of progress. In the long run, it’s frustrating, not liberating, to be like
the airplane pilot who radios, “I have good news and bad news. The good
news is that I’m making excellent time. The bad news is that I’m lost!” Or,
putting it another way, a sailor without a destination cannot hope for a
favourable wind.
Leon Tec, M.D.
If an analysis was done of the most common reasons students don’t
succeed in academics, the reasons given would be procrastination,
poor concentration, and lack of motivation. Many people don’t
realize that both procrastination and poor concentration are
symptoms from lack of motivation.
An actively motivated student will be better focused, have improved
concentration, and be more likely to succeed. Motivation is the very
ingredient that makes students successful.
Motivated Famous People
Some of the more famous people who had strong motivations were:
Thomas Edison:
Thomas Edison dreamed of a light bulb and after
over 10,000 failures he finally did succeed.
Helen Keller:
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly
after birth. Her motivations lead to one of the world’s most moving
and touching books on perseverance.
Beethoven: Beethoven became deaf later in age, but his deafness did
not stop him from composing the music he loved so much.
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