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Do you feel wise?
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Emotions exist for a reason. Feelings tell us important things that logic alone may miss. Sometimes those things are really, really important.
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Motivation experiment days 19-21
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Achieving something personally challenging, and surprising myself, noticeably increases my intrinsic motivation to draw as my experiment in motivation continues.
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Motivation experiment days 16-18: the joys of imperfection
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As my experiment in drawing daily continues I notice fluctuations in intrinsic motivation, and reflect on the threat that perfectionism poses to accomplishment.
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Motivation experiment days 13-15: the role of praise
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My experiment in motivation continues into the 15th day of drawing daily, and I reflect on the effects of praise on motivation and how these effects can be altered by depression.
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Motivation experiment – days 9-12
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As my experiment in daily drawings progresses from day nine to 12 my intrinsic motivation to draw continues to increase, and I decide to try out some tracing.
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Motivation part 2 – Rewards and Punishment
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Operant conditioning is the technical term used in behavioural sciences for learning from consequences.
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Motivation experiment days 7 & 8
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After a little over a week of drawing daily, my interest and enjoyment of this daily task starts to pick up through a combination of positive feedback from others and my own sense of accomplishment.
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Motivation experiment days 5 & 6
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As my experiment with drawing daily to see what happened to my motivation continues, so does the struggle thinking of things to draw. But by forcing myself, some ideas do start to come.
