Friday, March 9, 2012

Motivation

Motivation is what drives people to create and produce. People typically do not do things for the sake of doing them. There is always motive for getting something done or accomplishing a task but what motivates people to be productive? Being a college student, I would argue that my number one motivation is monetary. At this point I have grown accustomed to being poor about 90 percent of the time and I have stretched my money as far as it would possibly get me but I work had to make money and the more money I am offered the harder I work. This is true of me now because I do no have much money but in the future I am sure it will be other things that motivate. In my experiences I have found that another create motivator is the feeling of accomplishing a task that at first might have seem impossible. The harder my classes are in school, the more effort that I put into being successful in that class. The joy of getting an A in my entrepreneurship classes as compared to getting an A in introduction to literature are a lot different. Being able to do something that other people failed at is a motivation. Everyone gets an A in introduction to literature but not everyone gets an A in entrepreneurship so there is more motivation to get the A in entrepreneurship and set my self apart from the crowd. Motivation is tricky when you are a leader and the only way to motivate people is to ask them what they want and when you find out what the bigger picture is, you can use their responses to figure out the best way to get people to accomplish the most possible.

1 comment:

  1. I really like the point that you bring up about different people being motivated by different accomplishments and I feel that it is good for one to figure out what really makes you happy because you do not want to spend your whole life striving for some thing then find out that it is not really satisfying.

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