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uiz Bee Answer the following questions:
1. What are your top four Qualities or Strengths? List them.
2. How do you use your interest and abilities to do well in school life?
3. Mention your one strength which you used recently to get good grades in your project.
SELF-MOTIVATION
Self-motivation is the force that drives you to do things to achieve your goals. It is a life skill that must be necessarily
developed, to keep you going even in times of setbacks and look for new opportunities in every move of life.
Self-motivation helps you:
• Push yourself to face the challenges of life.
• Survive the tough competition in personal and professional life.
• By giving you happiness.
• By improving your quality of life.
• To withstand setbacks, and grow as an individual.
• To believe in yourself and convince yourself to do things as and when
put to you.
For example, Shristi wakes up at 4 am in the morning to practice for badminton. Her father takes her for coaching in
the morning from 4 to 6:30 am, then from there she changes for school, and reaches school at 7:30 am. After school,
she goes straight home and has no outings with friends as she has to do her homework and cope up with her studies.
Also, eating healthy food and sleeping on time will help her wake up on her own early in the morning for practice.
Nobody tells her to do this, she does it on her own, and her self-motivation keeps her going to fulfil her dreams to be
an international badminton player one day.
Types of Motivation
It is important to understand that we all are different and our motivational needs vary from person to person. There
are two broad categories of motivation. Let us learn about them.
Internal/Intrinsic Motivation
Intrinsic motivation is related to what we want to do. It is, doing something with fun which makes you happy, and is
totally interesting for you. It gives you pleasure, and good feeling. For example, doing gardening, taking part in inter
school debate, going for a morning walk, playing with the kids in the park, and doing painting in your free time.
External/Extrinsic Motivation
Extrinsic motivation is related to what we have to do. It is, doing something that gives you rewards, or avoids getting
punishments. The reward can be money, post, marks, goodwill, etc. For example, doing a part time job to earn money,
going everyday for coaching to clear an upcoming competitive exam with good results.
Qualities of Self-Motivated People
Self-motivation is an essential tool that makes you do something not because someone told you to do it but, because
you wanted to do it to achieve the goals of your life. A self-motivated person should possess the given qualities to
succeed in life:
• They know what they want from life.
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