Motivation is something that brings us the courage to do something important for ourselves. In my reading groups reading inquiry we asked, "What things do you notice (in a book or real life) that people do to motivate other people to do good things?" We all had many things to share. I going to just highlight a few of the ones a did. Because I want to let my group share their great observations.
So, for books I obviously chose 1984 by George Orwell as a main example since I am still reading it. In 1984, people are forced to not think bad things (if they do they will be arrested by the thought police), their thoughts are constantly monitored, which motivates people to think freely, out of the box and for ourselves. Also, in 1984 I noticed Winston, who I imagine to be a small person (maybe around 5 foot 4), who's very weak, and is a goody toe-shoes wants to do a big thing and break out of his little thought prison, which is something big, considering the thought police try to monitor everyone's thoughts. This motivates smaller, maybe even people who are very timid to make something of themselves. 1984 is the most thought provoking books I've ever read and I'm going to talk a lot more about it.
In real life there are many things you can do that are kind things you can do to motivate someone or many people. I focused on something little for this first one. Just holding a door open for someone is the gateway to a chain of motivation to do good things. For example, you hold a door open for somebody, that person does something good to motivate a few other people, and on and on. This next one is about Hurricane Sandy and that storm in Illinois a few weeks back. The amount of people who are helping the ones who got hit really badly by the storms were incredible. There still cleaning up for both. Just the people who are donating all there time to help the less fortunate are doing something that will motivate everyone to do something amazingly helpful.
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