{"id":17219,"date":"2021-12-14T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2021-12-15T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T01:15:32","slug":"why-cant-i-find-the-motivation-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/12\/14\/why-cant-i-find-the-motivation-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I find the motivation to study?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AW121421-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AW121421-2.jpg\" alt=\"Why can't I find the motivation to study?\" class=\"wp-image-17214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AW121421-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AW121421-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AW121421-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Why can&#8217;t I find the motivation to study?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you thought of looking under the couch cushions? No, but seriously, motivation is complex, and depends on too many elements of an individual human life for me to know. However. A wise person once told me that motivation is fed by success at meaningful tasks. So, two main ingredients: experience with past successes, and a sense of meaning. IOW think about your successes, and think about what new capacities or growth studying might provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you thought of looking under the couch cushions? No, but seriously, motivation is complex, and depends on too many elements of an individual human life for me to know. However. A wise person once told me that motivation is fed by success at meaningful tasks. So, two main ingredients: experience with past successes, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/12\/14\/why-cant-i-find-the-motivation-to-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why can&#8217;t I find the motivation to study?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}