Dec 8, 2013
This
article tells about a girl who keeps her spirit up to struggle her life and has
motivation to make her dream comes true. The girl named Stephanie. She was born twenty years ago in Jakarta. She has
limitation in thinking and communicating with others but she has talent in
swimming.
Her mom let her free to choose whatever her want to be. Her
hobby is swimming, so she said to her mom that she want to be a swimming
athlete. Thus, she has often to do swimming since she was childhood.
Her
mom loves her so much. She grows up with a million of loves. Her family always
supports her to do whatever she loves. Many
supports come from anywhere. Now she becomes an athlete. She has had won many
Olympiads in many countries in the world.
I think, her environment also take a role to her success. So, her motivation is
can be from herself/inside (intrinsic
motivation) and outside (extrinsic motivation).
I
think, everyone proud of her because even tough
in many limitations that she has, she keeps trying to do her best. As a human
being, it is normal if she wants to show off to the others that she can
do as well as the other people can do. If I
related with Maslow’s hierarchy of need, there are five stages on Maslow’s
hierarchy.
The first is physiological need. That is a very basic need that every human
being needed, for example, sleep, oxygen, water protein and so on. The second
is safety need. It means that she also needs a protection from war and crime, security,
stability, protection from physical and emotional harm.
The
third is belongingness
& love needs. This is that her family/environment already gave to
her. This need also influence her motivation to be successful as well now. The
fourth stage is esteem needs. This stage is has include with self-respect,
confidence, autonomy, and achievement. In this stage shows that Stefhanie
already has confidence to show off to public that she can do her best.
The
last stage will achieve if the four stages already completed. It is self-actualization
need. I think, she has already on this stage because she had been succeeded on showed
their potential and get many appreciations from people.
Motivation
from inside and outside is important. We need to
keep our dream alive if we believe that we can achieve our dream come true. Motivation
from outside can be from our parent, family, friend, teacher, and so on.
In school, teacher also has role to make the students feel motivated in learning process. Thus, teacher should know many strategies to make students keep spirit up in learning. For example by giving them positive reinforcement (reward, positive feedback and so on), give them a story from inspiring people and many more.
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