Quotes About Motivation

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

as it may be—matters. How you feel about your abilities—your academic "self-concept"—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.

How you feel about your abilities—your academic "self-concept"—in the context of your classroom shapes your willingness to tackle challenges and finish difficult tasks. It's a crucial element in your motivation and confidence.

Underdog strategies are hard.

According to research done by Mitchell Chang of the University of California, the likelihood of someone completing a STEM degree—all things being equal—rises by 2 percentage points for every 10-point decrease in the university's average SAT score.4 The smarter your peers, the dumber you feel; the dumber you feel, the more likely you are to drop out of science.

Students who attend what they considered to be their first-choice school were less likely to persist in a biomedical or behavioral science major," they write. You think you want to go to the fanciest school you can. You don't.

Schools work. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren't achieving, is that there isn't enough of it.

Uno de los principales motivos por los que un catedrático acepta un sueldo inferior al que podría cobrar en la empresa privada es que la vida universitaria le da la libertad de hacer lo que quiera hacer, lo que considere correcto.

Malcolm Gladwell

In winter, the lazy man freezes to death.

there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that's worth more to most of us than money.

The beginning is hard, [Levin] went on. By the end of the day they're restless. Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation. Part of it is incentives and rewards and fun stuff. Part of it is good old-fashion discipline. You throw all of that into the stew. We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean.

We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean

because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

What happens to us when we get drunk is a function of the particular path the alcohol takes as it seeps into our brain tissue. The effects begin in the frontal lobes, the part of our brain behind our forehead that governs attention, motivation, planning, and learning.

If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged. Instead of responding in a 'let me control your behavior' way, the teacher needs to think, 'How can I do something interesting that will prevent you from misbehaving in the first place?

And why? Because

Now let's do the same kind of analysis for people like

Malcolm Gladwell

Hardwork is aprison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell