Lack of motivation: College students

One problem that many college students face no matter their classification whether they go to community college, take online courses, and or 4 year university most of them lack self confidence, determination, and discipline. There are a plethora of reasons why most of them lack these forces that can help them through school, relationships, and even life. First of the many reasons why students lack self motivation is that they do not believe their effort will improve their performance, they will not be encouraged to work hard. An example of this would be if a class is known to students to be inordinately complicated, and because an assignment early in the course requires a lot of effort to convince them they cannot handle the workload. In the end will lead them to think since it is hard there is no point in trying. The second reason students may think intelligence comes and goes (they think it’s a fixed quantity) means you only can store so much, “so why learn it and forget if it is not that important?” “Why put in the extra effort?” This will cause students to become less determined to even want to learn the information or even attend the class. Third, some students think their school success is based on talent rather than the work they put into the class in order to get the grades in the course. Furthermore, lack of self-confidence does not coincide with lack of ability. But, often is the result of…