Keys to Motivation

From: Cracking the Boy Code

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• Motivation is more emotional than analytical. It needs to draw upon personal sources of interest and excitement.

• Adults and boys have different ideas about what merits effort. Before you set an agenda, take time to consider potential differences.

• Boys will feel more motivated by tasks that seem consequential beyond their own lives. The constant admonishment to simply “try harder” usually kills motivation.

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Adam Cox

Adam J. Cox Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist whose work includes thousands of hours interviewing children. His research includes a multi-year global research project, Locating Significance in the Lives of Boys, for the International Boys' Schools Coalition, during which he interviewed students and teachers in the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds. A sought-after therapist and frequent speaker on the psychology of boys, he is author of the acclaimed books On Purpose Before Twenty, Boys of Few Words and No Mind Left Behind. Cox lives in Rhode Island and shares his wisdom in his newsletter Family Matters at DrAdamCox.com.