Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Scott Berkun - How to Stay Motivated

College students especially must find ways to stay motivated through the completion of their degrees in order to perform to the maximum of their capabilities. Writer, blogger, and speaker Scott Berkun explores some methods we can use to get motivated and sustain it through to the end of a task.

"All great tasks test our motivation. It’s easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It’s in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it’s no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things."

Click here to read the essay.

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