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Why You Never Feel Motivated To Study or Learn
Because studying, on its own, means absolutely nothing to you.
It’s all just letters or numbers on papers that are supposed to signify how good or bad you are at something that will then determine whether or not you get job X, which also means nothing to you since you have no idea what you would even do in Job X.
So basically you are working hard and striving for random letters that signify a job where you do something.
That’s absolutely something you have to get motivated for… right?
In your head, there is no relation between the grades you are getting and the actual work you will be doing later.
Most students simply follow what they think they are supposed to do, never questioning what it means or ends up in.
They are too busy focusing on having fun, worrying about relationships, and their social status overall to consider what a job, and a big part of the next 4–5 decades of their life, looks like.
For example: Do you know what your ideal job would be? In that job, what would an 8-hour workday look like? Do you know what people in that job do for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week?
Barely any student will think about these questions, hoping that it will all work out somehow without their…
