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Motivation is an internal
state or condition (sometimes described as a need, want, or desire) that
serves to activate behavior and energize that behavior to keep moving in a
positive direction. As young students in elementary school,
your teachers provided you with lots of rewards and incentives to
accomplish the tasks they assigned in the day. In high school, your
teachers do not reward you; instead they award you grades based on
your performance, and they expect good grades to be enough reward to motivate you for success (and likewise, they expect bad grades will
motivate you to do better). For students with poor study skills, bad
grades do not serve as incentive to do better when they have studied as
best they know how and have still failed. Motivation and self-esteem
suffer and they give up, because after all, it's more difficult to try
your hardest and fail, than it is to "just blow it off."
There are some steps you can take to find
your motivation to succeed:
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