What motivates you?
Let’s watch these two videos. Then let’s get to the bottom to see what really motivates you.
Answer the following questions:
At work
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Are you a team player or a lone wolf?
- Do your strengths align with the job?
- Do they align with the company overall?
- Are you applying for a position that you’ll want to excel at or are you just there for a paycheck?
In your life
- What are you passionate about?
- What is it that gets you out of bed every day with enthusiasm?
- Where does your mind go when you’re allowed to daydream?
- Can you think of a time when you were very motivated to learn something (not language)? When was it? What kind of motivation did you have?
- Do you think one kind of motivation is better than another? If so, which one?
- Think of other language classes you have had. What activities did you do that were motivating? Make a list.
- What kind of classroom activities do you find DEmotivating (i.e. that do not motivate you). Make a list.