Rewards: how effective are they?

Being in college is not easy. When you need to take so many courses to complete a degree, a few of them feel unnecessary and irrelevant. Regardless of those feelings, you still need to take them. So, how do you get motivated?

It’s common knowledge that rewards have always been used to get people motivated. Positive an negative reinforcements help people modify their conduct. But is rewarding yourself always effective? Should you use rewards all the time in order to find the necessary motivation to work?

The science of motivation is complicated. Take a look at this video from motivational speaker Daniel Pink. Hopefully, it will trigger enough curiosity to get you motivated to learn more about motivation: