What I've Learnt About Motivation

1. Achieve the state of 'flow'
   Challenge and ability have positive correlation. The optimum point is met when the challenge you're facing perfectly matches your ability. When the task is too challenging, outweighing your ability, do something to upgrade yourself. In other words, be more hard-working.
   

    Csikszentmihalyi's flow model

   (Source: Wikipedia)
2. To have, or to be?
   Do you have a lot of desire to own many different things, or to be someone different? Think about it.
3. Delayed gratification
   An old study found that people who are willing to delay their gratification for long-term rewards will be more successful in long term. Researcher distributed two marshmallows to each child experiment target, told them that they would leave for awhile and would give them two extra marshmallows if they did not eat it before the researcher came back. As a trace study, researcher followed up on the targets after several years and discovered that the children who did not eat the marshmallows turned out to be more successful in general.
4. Happiness or satisfaction?
   Every one craves happiness, but it only has short term effect, unlike satisfaction.
5. Live in the present, not the past nor future
   People who live in the past tend to have a lot of grudge; while those who live in the future tend to be anxious and worried, yet they do not act on it.
6. According to the official standard, each degree credit accounts for 1 hour of class per week, and the suggested time for revision is 2 hours per 1-hour-class.
7. Think of your role model
   Or just anyone you admire in any aspect.