Teaching Tangents #5: How do I motivate myself?

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Business, psychology, and geography teacher James D’Souza has questions from his high school students to discuss with Playful Strategy Consultant Willem van der Horst. This week’s question is: “How do I motivate myself?”

How do be or keep motivating is a recurring question from students to James, so we discuss motivation or lack thereof to begin with, we talk about the importance of play, the music we listen to while working, a variety of practices and leads to help find connections between interests and study or work, and more.

About the author

Willem was born in New York, grew up in Paris, lived in London and Asia for several years before moving to Chicago in 2017. He is an award winning brand & marketing strategist, having worked with some of the largest creative advertising agencies and most valuable consumer brands globally. Willem enjoys tabletop games, skiing, scuba-diving, traveling, eating, and lengthy conversations with friends.