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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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