"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

Next week, we will continue the discussions of motivation and mindset that we started this week. We are reading a new book which will bring a fresh perspective to the conversation. Also, the first video projects will be behind you and we can talk about what motivated you to make the choices you made in your project.

For blogging next week, the first post should be your actual video either embedded or linked to in your post along with some reflection on how it turned out. How well did you manage your time and how did that correspond to the quality of the finished product? How well did you achieve the goals of making your video informative, entertaining, and (technologically) polished? How well did you balance the material you gained in interviews with your own voice introducing the topic and drawing conclusions from your research? (This post is not due until Oct 2 since that is the technical due date for the video itself.)

In the second post, I'd like you to respond to the Mindset book (what do you think of the main argument of the book so far?) and connect it to the recent things we have been reading about and discussing in regard to the topic of motivation.

If you want to learn more about the Marshmallow experiment, there are lots of articles that talk about it. This one, for example, talks about how the SAT scores of someone who could wait the full 15 minutes were "two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds."

This article, "The Secret of Self-Control" from The New Yorker has a much more extensive discussion of the experiment if you are interested.

And here is an interesting article critiquing the whole concept called "Just Let Them Eat The Marshmallow."

Enjoy!