Task 1
Watch the video below:
http://ed.ted.com/on/LT8oQQTo#watch
Then
Write 10 keywords related to the article. Look the words up in the dictionary if you do not know their meanings fully. Next to each word, write the part of speech (adjective, verb, noun, adverb, preposition, etc).
And answer these questions:
What motivations do you have in your life?
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
Post the words you find as well as the answers of the questions on September 5th.
Well I found the following worids or phrases which call my attention:
ResponderBorrar1. Amazing engaging
2. A Little bit freaky
3. Spatial puzzles
4. Cash prize
5. Rudimentary cognitive skills
6. Vaguely left-wing
7. Weird socialist conspirancy
8. Sufficiently motivating
9. This isn´t that anomalous
10. Creative thinking.
11. Self-dedicated
12. Undiluted autonomy
13. Bounch of people
14. Discretionary time
15. Economic behavior
16. Moored
What motivations do you have in your life?
My motivation is around achievements in my job, when I finish a project required by my boss, and it is very well or excellent.
In my personal life I feel so proud about idioms, I really enjoy when I can comunicate with each other around the world.
I motivate myself always I am convinced that I am not stupid of any topic no matter what subject is related with.
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
When I conscious I am doing well in my job, sex, friends, co-workers, relative, etc.
Also if I am recognized by my hierarchy high levels, I feel accepted and part of the team.
1. Engaging, Adjective
ResponderBorrar2. Unbelievably, Adverb
3. Freaky, Adjective
4. Endlessly, Adverb
5. Rewards, Noun
6. Poorer, Adjective
7. Vaguely, Adjective
8. Weird, Adjective
9. Defy, transitive Verb
10. Straightforward, Adjective
What motivations do you have in your life?
In my professional life I have two principal motivations, the first is related with the possibility to be a good professional, learn and understand new topic or go into detail about some topic, capable to understand and develop knowledge. The second motivation is the possibility to give a contribution with the development of my country across the training of the future engineers.
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
The reward after a hard work, I mean, writing scientific articles where you can displayed results from your research. In addition the satisfaction participating in conferences when You meet people with which exchange ideas and learn more about other topics.
Jorge Quesada
ResponderBorrarA) I found the following keywords and phrases related to the article:
1) Motivations / Challenges / performance / Incentives
2) Endless manipulable
3) Monetary reward
4) Mechanical skills
5) Rudimentary cognitive skills
6) Worked as expected
7) The higher reward the better the performance
8) Engagement and selfdirected
9) Innovation bonus
10) Better at stuff
11) Business model
12) Sophisticated technological work
13) Making the world a better place
B) What motivations do you have in your life?
There are a lot of things that motivate me in my life. One of my best motivation is my job because with my work I was able to have a house, I can travel around the world, I can have a car and the most important thing with my job is that I have a very wonderful team work and a very nice working environment. They make me feel part of a very important project inside the university. But, one of the most important motivation in my life is to wake up in the morning and to know that I can see, to know that I can walk and to know that I can breathe. To be alive is a gift to do any kind of things I want to do.
C) What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
The engine that drives my life is to know that I can do anything I want. That not exactly means do whatever I want to do, means do the things that help me to achieve my goals. In that way, for me is very important to recognize that in many things I need the help from another person. To be humble and responsable helps the people to be better. I also think that I do not know all the things I would like to know that is why I need to be close to the people that teach me to be a better person in this world during all the rest of my life.
Laura Araya B.
ResponderBorrarA) I found the following keywords and phrases:
1) Amazingly Engaging
2) Vaguely
3) Straight forward tasks
4) Array
5) Urge
6) Gets unmoored
7) Crappy Products
8) Unins piring places
9) Profit motive is paramount
10) Unhitched
B) What motivations do you have in your life?
In my own life I have a lot of motivation, my family are the center and all the things that I make is focused around them. In my job, I am glad with God, because I have the opportunity to work, to earn a salary that help my family and our goals.
C) What motivates you to keep going to achieve your goals?
If my family are my center, imagine, they keep trying to reach my goals. For example when I finish this course I want to begin my studies in Business Administration.
Gustavo Cubillo
ResponderBorrarMotivations (noun)
Incentives (noun)
Performance (noun)
Rewards (noun)
Mechanical skill (adjective, noun)
The higher the pay, the better the performance
Defies (verb) the laws of behavioral physics
Autonomy (noun): The desire to be directed
Mastery (noun): the urge to get better at staff
Purpose (noun)
Engagement (noun)
What motivations do you have in your life?
I have three factors that motivated me, all of them work together: Time, health and the minimums resources to enjoy the live.
What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?
The challenges are my motivation to keep going and achieve my goals.
Andrés Robles R.
ResponderBorrarPart I
1. Small rewards
2. Ding in a universe
3. Mechanical skill
4. Seems vaguely
5. Weird socialist conspiracy
6. Bonuses worked
7. Incentives led
8. Straight forward task
9. What motivation
10. Management run
Key words
ResponderBorrar1. cleepy products
2. mastery very
3. bonuses worked
4. seams vaguely
5. defy the law
7. motivation in
8. straight forward
9. management run
10. mechanical skill
Andrés Robles Ramírez
ResponderBorrarPart II
A. What motivations do you have in your life?: In my particular case my motivation is related to the final result; It minds that I feel happier when I reach my goals and objectives.
B. What motivates you to keep going, to achieve your goals?:In my case I have a personal and professional develop plan; so all my projects are related between each others; besides, a good team work is necessary in order to achieve the results, so I feel happy and motivated when I am working with professional and dedicated people.
Motivation in my life:
ResponderBorrarI am motivating by my kids and family, because they make my life happier, and inspired me to be better. Also at work I feel motivated when I do a good job and helps to do things better.
2. What motivates me is the challenge to keep the balance in my different rolls, as a mother, wife and professional. This thing motivated me to keep going in order to succeed in all of them.