How to generate interest? In real life, we often say that interest is the best teacher. Interest can make us master a skill quickly, but it is not difficult to make ourselves interested. Let's share with you how to generate interest.

How to generate interest 1 1 and cultivate a wide range of interests? Not only should you have a strong interest in your own professional field, but you should also be interested in other aspects. This kind of person has a broader vision, can get a lot of negative inspiration when solving problems, and has more room for career planning.

2. Do everything carefully. The work or study you are engaged in now is not what you like, but you should work hard to finish it seriously, because strong inner emotions will interest you in the work and make you enter the state. Since you can't change the status quo, why not learn to change yourself?

3. Learn to cultivate and find interest. The work or study you are in contact with now is not what you like. You can learn to cultivate and find interest in an indirect way. You can learn about your job prospects and development opportunities, and gradually learn about a career to arouse your interest.

4. Correct mentality. Your hobby is not for injections, for saving face, or for showing off yourself. If your motivation is nothing more than this, you may feel a little fresh and curious at first, but it is difficult to continue. If you really like it and think it is meaningful and valuable, you will have the motivation to stick to it.

You should have some talents. No matter for someone or something, if you don't like it, there is no need to work hard, otherwise you will pay more or lose more. A little talented, and you really like it. If you don't have much interest, even if you seem to be doing well, it will only be a painful torture for yourself.

How to generate interest 2 Interest plays a great role in the formation and development of a person's personality and in his life and activities. This role is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

First, preparation for future activities. For example, for a middle school student, being interested in chemistry may inspire him to accumulate all kinds of chemical knowledge and study all kinds of chemical phenomena, so as to lay a foundation for his future research and work in chemistry.

Secondly, it will promote ongoing activities. Interest is an interest activity with strong emotions, which can make people concentrate on acquiring knowledge and creatively complete current activities. Professor Ding Zhaozhong, a famous Chinese-American scholar, once said with deep feelings: "In any scientific research, the most important thing is whether you are interested in what you are doing, in other words, whether you are enterprising. This cannot be forced. ..... for example, doing physics experiments, because I am interested, I can stay in the laboratory for two days and two nights, or even three days and three nights. I am eager to discover what I want to explore. " It is interest and enterprising spirit that have promoted Professor Ding's scientific research and made him a great success.

Third, advocate a creative attitude towards activities. Interest will encourage people to study deeply and work and study creatively. For middle school students, being interested in a course will encourage them to study hard and think creatively, which will not only greatly improve their academic performance, but also greatly improve their learning methods and efficiency.

It can be seen that people's interest not only occurs and develops in learning and activities, but also is a great driving force for understanding and engaging in activities. It can open people's intelligence, enrich people's knowledge, broaden people's horizons, make people good at adapting to the environment and full of enthusiasm for life. Interest does play a great role in the formation and development of people's character.

How to generate interest 3 What is interest?

Heidi and Baird divide interests into two categories: personal interests and situational interests. Personal interest refers to the interest caused by those texts that conform to personal value orientation. This interest is intrinsic and positive, and it is related to a specific theme. Personal interests are mainly based on personal knowledge, experience and emotion. Generally speaking, personal interest is a long-term interest, often lasting, and has reached a stable state. The interests that people usually talk about fall into this category. For example, the interests of all kinds of "fans" and "enthusiasts" in life are all personal interests.

Situational interest is a temporary cognitive state triggered by environment and closely related to a specific context. For example, many people will find magic interesting after watching the magician's performance, and they will be interested in learning magic. This temporary interest is situational interest, which is generally difficult to last, and needs to be transformed into personal interest under certain conditions.

The formation from situational interest to personal interest needs to go through the following process: under the influence of the environment, I have a short-term interest in a certain knowledge field-I have a deep understanding of the knowledge in this field and realized the value of the knowledge in this field-I have further studied the knowledge in this field, and gained positive feedback in the learning process, resulting in a sense of accomplishment-my interest has gradually stabilized and been continuously refined in this knowledge field.

How to generate and maintain interest?

We can regard the generation (stimulation) and maintenance of interest as two independent processes. The main factors affecting interest stimulation are independent choice and environmental factors.

You may notice a phenomenon that general courses in universities are better than compulsory courses in attendance and students' seriousness. The reason for this difference is not only that general courses are more interesting, but also that students can choose to take general courses independently, which can stimulate their interest.

We prefer to get in touch with new things in a free state rather than study with tasks and pressure. This can explain why many "interest classes" in primary and secondary schools can't cultivate real enthusiasts, because children who participate in interest classes often participate in learning at the request (or even forced) of their parents. This lack of independent choice can easily make students feel resistant. The correct way to cultivate interest should be to let children choose their own courses, and others can only play a guiding role.

In addition to independent choice, environmental factors will also have an impact on interest stimulation. For example, in oral English learning, courses hosted by foreign teachers can stimulate beginners' interest more than ordinary Chinese teaching classes, and it is easier for learners to get interested by introducing pictures or multimedia forms. The same is to remember words. Using the following graphic method will be more acceptable than simply memorizing word books. (The picture information comes from Webster's Visual Dictionary, and the dictionary website is/).

A good environment helps to stimulate learners' interest, while a bad environment will also have a negative impact. For example, a common phenomenon is that girls are generally inferior to boys in science and engineering. Is the reason for this difference really the level of intelligence? Psychologists have found through investigation that the main reason for this difference lies in the social environment. The traditional social concept holds that the potential of science and engineering girls is not as good as that of boys, which will give them negative psychological hints, dampen their interest in learning and lead to a decline in their grades.

Stimulating situational interest is only the first step to generate interest. Maintaining situational interest and eventually transforming it into personal interest requires constant training. Among them, there are two important factors at work: the understanding of interest value and the establishment of positive feedback mechanism. Knowing the value of interest can help us understand why we should cultivate an interest, and the establishment of a positive feedback mechanism can allow us to continue to invest time and energy and make our interest reach a stable state.

Understanding the value of interest contributes to the generation of internal drive, thus maintaining the enthusiasm for interest. For example, some researchers in the west have found that high school students who are aware of the importance of mathematics foundation are often more interested in mathematics elective courses and easier to learn mathematics well. Realizing the fact that "this interest is very valuable" will help us invest more time and energy in it.

In the process of interest formation, positive feedback plays a vital role, and it can even determine whether interest can finally be formed.

Human nature determines that we prefer comfort and enjoyment to thinking and working. Any interest has to go through a lot of practice and thinking from its birth to its stability, which is essentially against human nature.

What can support us to practice and improve an interest persistently?

Is it willpower?

The answer is no.

Observing the senior fans of various disciplines around you, you will find that what really keeps them going today is not willpower, but the positive feedback they constantly get in the learning process-such as the sense of accomplishment brought by progress, recognition and praise from others, and material incentives. Kelly Magnegel mentioned in Self-control that willpower is also a consumable, and it will be used less and less. If an interest requires a lot of willpower to complete, it is often unsustainable in the end. What determines how far we can go is not diligence and willpower, but continuous efforts brought by positive feedback.

We can use this picture to describe the positive feedback mechanism:

This is a process of self-strengthening: interest will enable us to constantly improve a skill, and the improvement of skills will give us positive incentives such as a sense of accomplishment, thus enhancing our interest and further improving our skills ... thus forming a positive cycle.

According to the above analysis, we can cultivate and establish interest in English learning in the following ways:

1. Re-recognize the value of English learning

The first step to cultivate interest is to make learners really realize the value of interest. The value of interest is large enough for learners to generate enough driving force. Many people who don't want to learn English will ask such a question, "What's the use of learning English if I don't go abroad and take exams?"

There are many answers to this question. The simplest answer is that it can make you more free. For example, you don't have to endure poor Chinese translation, you can read the original directly, communicate with English users who account for the majority of the world's population, and have more channels to receive and obtain information. This freedom itself is attractive enough.

The best way to truly understand the value of a thing is to try. I wonder what's the use of learning English? Read the original, listen to audio books, and talk to British and American people. If you try this way, I believe you will have a different understanding of this language.

2. Establish a positive feedback mechanism

It is not enough to realize that it is important to learn English well. To cultivate lasting and stable interest, we must establish a positive feedback mechanism. For example, we can use more effective tools and materials to increase positive feedback in English learning.

The life of a gentleman is the same, and the goodness lies in personal leave. The greatest value of a good tool is that it can reduce the useless work in the process of skill acquisition and let us achieve our goals in an easier way. For example, Kindle is more conducive to cultivating beginners' interest in reading the original, because it solves the problem of new words well; Using Mdict or Eurodictionary can make it easier to query, remember and organize words. Choosing materials suitable for your own level can overcome the fear of learning and make it easier for learners to enter the state ... I have recommended many such tools and materials in previous articles. You can view these articles:

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3. Tool English.

Building a lasting and stable interest in a skill must be inseparable from a large number of practical applications. In my opinion, the best state of learning English is not always reminding myself "I am trying to learn English", but taking learning English as a habit and a tool in daily life. In language learning, subtle persistence is more effective than hard work.

Try to use English as a means to obtain information and give play to its use value. For example, when obtaining international information, English news reports are preferred (such as reading the Guardian or BBC news), so that you can often get first-hand information. Choose the original rather than the Chinese translation, so that you can understand the original more accurately. Students with a good foundation can also try to listen to audio books, TED talks, and even American TV shows and talk shows.

In the process of using English, I believe you will experience such "aha moment", such as suddenly understanding materials you didn't understand before, reading long sentences you didn't understand before, and repeating words you have memorized in sentences. This kind of experience can bring you great satisfaction and make you realize that "language learning is so interesting". Find interest in using language, and let interest promote language learning.

Cognition of the value of interest, independent choice and learning environment will all have an important impact on the stimulation of interest, and the positive feedback mechanism plays a key role in shaping interest, allowing learners to continuously invest time and energy in interest and continuously improve their skills. The key to cultivating interest in English learning lies in recognizing the value of English, choosing suitable learning tools and materials on this basis, and having the consciousness of actively using language in life, taking English as a part of life.