3 A- "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2

There are good and bad circumstances that we all face in our daily life.  It is part of our human existence. Hamlet represents all of us who face life head on but don’t always react well or fail to react at all.  His thinking like many others isn’t always clear.  Many people will try to avoid challenges and even give up easily in a situation because of difficulty.  Many feel threatened by other people and their success. Do we just accept our own fate, which would be an example of extrinsic motivation or do we try and control our own destiny, which would be an example of  ? We have to make our own choices between good and bad.  We all face different dilemmas and we either persist, which would represent growth mindset.  W hen mistake are made or we give up too easily, this is an example of fixed mindset.  We can be threatened by the success of others, or we can try to learn from them.  It all depends how we see life and experience it. We can either accept what live gives to us or we can accept these challenges head on and make positive decisions.  These decisions will affect our life as we mature.   If we have fixed mindset we will avoid any negative feedback and not learn from it. 

Some psychologists go so far as to claim that intrinsic motivation doesn’t exist. Professor Steven Reiss at Ohio State University believes that human motivations can’t be forced into one category or the other and labeled as good or bad.

“We are taking many diverse human needs and motivations, putting them into just two categories, and then saying one type of motivation is better than another,” he says. “But there is no real evidence that intrinsic motivation even exists.”

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Motivating students has been a goal for teachers for generations, and it unfortunately has eluded them at times. In the second edition of his textbook "Educational Psychology," psychologist John W. Santrock defines motivation as "the processes that energize, direct and sustain behavior." In education, this translates to the ways we get students energized about their learning. One method of motivation is called "extrinsic motivation," which uses rewards and goals to get students motivated. There are a variety of ways to get students motivated using extrinsic methods.

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