Over the next few posts, I am going to explore various conceptions of motivation and how they inform academic (and other) writers. To start, consider the following questions for yourself.
1) What currently motivates you to write?
2) What feelings, behaviors and context are demotivating?
3) Think of a time when you were particularly motivated to write? What event/feeling/belief/behavior(s) lead to this motivation?
4) What might be your blindspots regarding your motivation? In other words, carefully reflect upon what you wrote and see if all of them ring true, or if perhaps you may be perpetuating some internalized myths or beliefs that do not serve you well. This is hard to do, but developing this type of insight is an important step toward "self coaching".
1) What currently motivates you to write?
2) What feelings, behaviors and context are demotivating?
3) Think of a time when you were particularly motivated to write? What event/feeling/belief/behavior(s) lead to this motivation?
4) What might be your blindspots regarding your motivation? In other words, carefully reflect upon what you wrote and see if all of them ring true, or if perhaps you may be perpetuating some internalized myths or beliefs that do not serve you well. This is hard to do, but developing this type of insight is an important step toward "self coaching".
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