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Thursday 13 June 2013

Tony Gurr Reflection Post


             I really like Tony's blogging style. In fact, I think his style is amazing. The visuals that he put on his post was not just a picture related to his sentences, but the visual images that he had had words which was also a message for us along with his sentences. It was totally impossible to get bored while reading his post because since the visuals also had a deep, specific messages to us and there were at least one of them in each paragraphs. I have to say, the visuals just really hooked me and lead me to scroll down his blog and read even more of his posts because they kept on coming.

            Tony's point was very appealing to me because I had the exact same thought as him and I totally agreed with his opinion, too. People can't motivate us to study on certain courses that we just don't like. The picture that said "When we catch fish, we don't bait with what the fishermen likes, but what fish likes." If we don't like what we are doing, it is impossible for us to do good on that, or even like it because we just hate doing that certain thing. For an example, sometimes in classes, I have my days when I just get really lazy and bored so I just can't focus on my work that I am supposed to do. Although I really like what I am doing, I just don't feel like doing it no matter how easy the worksheet is. Also, let's say there's a student who hates math. Even if we give him the easiest math questions in the world, he won't solve it not because he can't, but because he doesn't want to. When teachers give him math worksheets for homework, he will have to do it no matter how much he hates math but when he is free and he had an option of doing things, he would never choose to do a math worksheet. It is just impossible to force other people to like doing certain things. They have to realize the joy of doing that first before they do it. If they don't like to do that thing, they will have to find something else that they like doing.

            Also, when there is a super long double block period and students have to work on worksheets all day, it's just not fun. But for students who like doing that, they want to do even quadraple block periods on that same class. Although for students who don't like doing that, it is a torture which feels like years but for students who love doing that, it feels so good to do it and the time goes so fast for them. Just think of it as this way. Say that you are having a party for 8 hours straight. That time would go so fast and you would have so much fun that you won't even realize that much time had passed. But say that you hate science and you have to do a worksheet about that for just 2 hours straight. You probably can't endure it and it would feel like years.


         In conclusion, I agree with Tony's point on how it is not possible for other people to try to motivate us to like doing something. We have to realize the joy of doing it. If we can't we find something else that we like doing.

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