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Teach Your Students to Motivate Themselvesby Raymond Gerson Send Feedback to Raymond Gerson student motivationMore Details about student motivation here.
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"This book captures Raymond's energy, insights and experience from a lifetime of guiding people to success in school, careers and life and makes them available to students in high schools and colleges everywhere." --Tobin Quereau, Professor of Human Development and Assistant Department Chair for Behavioral Sciences, Austin Community College.
Feature Articles: Advertisers know the secret. They use the pain/pleasure principle to motivate potential customers to buy their products. Advertisers link pain to the avoidance of their products and pleasure to their use. For example, if you leave home without your American Express card what happens in the television commercial? Suffering occurs. When you leave home with the card, you experience wonderful benefits. At least that's what the commercial tells us. Advertisers understand that our minds are attracted to pleasure and that we dislike pain. So what is the lesson that you can teach your students? Teach them how to link pain with not pursuing their dreams. Teach them to associate pleasure with the pursuit of their goals. What is a practical way to teach this pain/pleasure principle to your students? First, ask them to identify a goal. For the purpose of this example, let's say it is a career objective. It will be easier for your students to sustain a high level of motivation toward this goal when they identify pleasurable reasons for taking action and painful consequences that will result from inaction. You can ask your students to do the following exercise: 1. List five benefits of obtaining the job you want. 2. List five costs of not obtaining the job you want. You can teach your students to use this self-motivation strategy for any goals that they wish to pursue. They can frequently review the benefits and costs for the inspiration to make their dreams come true. Copyright 2007. Raymond Gerson
Raymond Gerson has over over 40 years experience teaching career and self-development. He teaches college success strategy courses and is the author of five books including, Create the Life You Want. Go to http://www.raymondgerson.com for more information.
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