Gettin' Intrinsic

I am finding myself to be more intrinsically motivated when it comes to papers and projects and just things overall. I am not sure if I am just becoming more aware of my motivation to do things because we talk about it a lot in class or if I am just becoming more motivated with my life and the things I am doing. I've learned about intrinsic motivation before but have not discussed it until now in regards to creativity. I think it's probably not only am I becoming more aware but I am taking the more "creative" route in my classes. Instead of sticking to the same old boring college essay even though I am given a choice to do that or something else, I am choosing to do something I actually want to do.

It's kind of like back when I did competitive cheerleading..... As a team we picked our music because it was important to the coaches that not only do we like the routine but that we liked the music as well because we would be listening to that same mix for months to come and we would have to dance to it and everything. And we won't give our best performance to music we hate and routine we don't like.

But even with essays... I am picking topics I want to write about. We read Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" in my interp. class and I am going to write my paper on how Britney Spears is a hunger artist using her new cd's lyrics as support. I also find myself wanting to work on my Dante project and while I am taking a break from other things, I work on that project. And with the porject for this class, I love to observe people when they paint and it is very fascinating to me. I google my project whenever I am online.

I certainly do my best work when I am intrinsically motivated. I am usually worried about the grade but I feel like with the more work I put in and the serious thought behind all of my ideas the grade will just fall into place. I also find that I am not putting much emphasis on the grade at all. Which is helping me to keep m mind clear and really focus on the task at hand.