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Let’s look at the facts that we have at our disposal:
- It is worth at least a little increase in interest, as the work immediately goes better (experience with first-graders).
- A person, in principle, can become interested in even a very boring business (the story of a revolutionary).
- A job seems more interesting if we set ourselves up to be interesting (setting theory).
- Not only behavior depends on mood, but mood depends on behavior.
Guided by these facts, it is perhaps possible to develop some kind of strategy — a master plan for combating the vicious circle that interferes with learning.
If it is so important for us to sit down to work with a certain mood, and mood depends on behavior, then we must first look at what happens to us when we take on our favorite work.
We rub our hands in pleasure.
We smile.
We carefully prepare, anticipating the pleasure.
We seem to say to ourselves: “I love you, botanist! I will read with pleasure what is written in the book, and I will teach with pleasure!
In other words, we perform a series of physical (rubbing our hands) and mental actions.
Exactly the same thing should be done then — and especially then! — when you sit down to prepare lessons in an unloved subject.
According to the law of interconnection, after some repetitions — and not the first time! — there must be a good mood. An attitude to an interesting job will appear, and it, the job, will really become at least a little more interesting!
No, we should not expect that we will immediately and forever love, for example, geography, if we did not love it before. To fall in love with any academic subject, you need to study it well, we have already talked about this,
Let’s not love geography first, but our work on it! Let’s work with interest!
And it already looks quite real. To fall in love with work is available to everyone, even the most ardent haters of geography.