Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Grades and Motivation

The question that I want you to think about his how you can psychologically trick yourself into being more creative. How can you work on projects that are going to be graded without letting it affect your creativity? What coping habits might help maintain creativity?

Oh gosh, I'm not really sure. I guess the best way to go about it would to try and think of yourself as getting graded by how much time you put it. Most projects are better the more time they have committed to them. So if you set a goal of how much time you spend, and think of the idea and creativity as independent from grading and judgement you are more likely to succeed then if you try and cater to a teachers desires for your project. That way you still have motivation to work hard, and put in the time, but the creative aspect of the project doesn't suffer.

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