3A. Mindset and Motivation

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have the greatness thrust upon them” (William Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare once said, “there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

What does this mean? After reading this quote over and over again I came to release that motivation does not have a good or bad outcome, however it depends on the person thinking. Such as, when you are thinking about if you should study for the test or not you can have the motivation to study or you can have no motivation and wait last minute and study. The good outcome of this is that you’ll have a better chance passing the test and the bad outcome is that you will have a disadvantage on passing the test.

 How does the quote relate to motivation and the different kinds of motivations like intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation, and growth mindset vs. fixed mindset? Well first we need to know what intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is motivation based on taking pleasure and in an activity rather working toward an external reward. In my own words this means that people with intrinsic motivation only care on the outcome of things, say if a student passed a test with a “c” then that student will work harder to improve and reach a higher grade. Extrinsic motivation comes from outside, such as performing for money or reward. Meaning that they really don’t care about whatever happens like if a student passed a test with a “c” then that student would be perfectly fine with it. The reason why intrinsic vs. extrinsic relates to the quote is because a person’s motivation depends on that individual mindset. As for growth mindset vs. fixed mindset it tries in the same for intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation because a person who has a growth mindset also has an intrinsic motivation is because they both relate to each other as for a person who wants to improve and as for a person who has a fixed mindset they share a relation with extrinsic motivation because those are the people who settle on things.

After all, intrinsic motivation vs. extrinsic motivation and growth mindset vs. fixed mindset correlate with the quote.   

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          (Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic)