Tymaporer wrote:
I have no idea how to answer that. I'm motivated to do well in school because I hate getting bad grades, but I couldn't care less about the learning part. I'm a straight-A student because of natural intelligence and ability to absorb information, but if I didn't have that, I'm almost certain I wouldn't work any harder than I do now. I'd settle for being a straight-C or even straight-D student if that's all I could get without struggling. In this reality, though, I just can't stand to get anything less than a B, and that's pushing it.
That probably sounded really snobby, so I'm sorry if anyone's offended or something. Point is, I guess I'm not really motivated at all. It feels weird to realize that, because I know I wouldn't want to fail, but I guess that's more superficial, or whatever.
I'm exactly the same. I do well in college, but it's not because I study my smurf off, it's because I'm typically an academically bright person, and a lot of the things I was studying came naturally to me.
I was also an English/Lit student rather than a science one (although I do have an aptitude for maths), and so I was rather good at writing essays that were a load of rubbish in my final year of high school. I knew exactly what the teachers want, and I knew if I wrote it well enough, even if I didn't have a point, it'd
look like I did. This has carried over to college to an extent - I had a 2000 word report at one stage - 80% of it was rubbish that I wrote, where I then found references to back up my rubbish (instead of doing it the other way around), and used said references to pad out the other 20%.
So yes. No motivation, but I do well anyway.