Student Motivation and Why It Is Essential in Building a Successful Career

Abstract

Student motivation is an essential tool that is required to provide an incentive for students to acknowledge and habitualize because it is a determining factor towards identifying yourself and what career path you want to be able to take given the opportunity. The mindset you apply with how you perform tasks and assignments whether that would be at school, university, or work will define how likely you are to be successful. The concept and idea of student motivation underlies upon having a form of desire to willingly participate in the learning process while also stressing about the reasons behind their decision to be involved or lack of involvement in academic activities (Lumsden, 1994). Academic outcomes heavily influence student behavior and their decision- making in the future and different socio-demographic characteristics very much means individuals have their own form of preparation and procedures on what is the best approach with assignments and examinations (Roebken, 2007). We often think to ourselves what aspects of life are our sources of motivation in building the road to success when choosing what career path is best for us and what can we do to reach our goals & achievements. Without motivation students simply will not be able to perform at their very best on an academic standpoint and while it is disputable that there have been many successful individuals that have been high school or university drop outs, the undisputed factor that have contributed to their success is clearly their incentive and motivation of having to work every day to achieve what is best for them. The ultimate challenge is essentially adaptation and facing tough obstacles because the university environment is not so easy as they say and having a mindset dependent on academic performances can deteriorate your state of mind leading to a loss in motivation so it is imperative for a student to acquire a positive way of thinking because by just having that can give you a direction on how you can improve academic performances and build your own pathway towards your degree. Student perception of the quality of a specific program can determine a student's rate of success (Langevin, 2013). Moreover, Social connection is a crucial factor when discussing student motivation as having a person to talk to and have daily conversations with about how they are doing is so necessary to maintain that positive and stable mindset for a university student. In addition, a student obtains this sense of recognition and support from other individuals through social connection and various experiences of university dropouts have stressed upon not having any friends to communicate with can heavily affect his way of thinking and day-to-day habits which in most cases can result on a severe loss of motivation. Social support enables an individual to gain self-esteem and a form of emotional intelligence between themselves and other people therefore obtaining various insights and perspectives from numerous individuals which is such a crucial element during adolescence (Asif, 2019).