How We Sabotage Ourselves And What To Do About It
You know that feeling when you’re working on something, and then suddenly you know that it won’t work out – or at least not as well as you had hoped? You stop what you’re doing, for no apparent reason. There are many reasons why this happens to us. We call it the “Law of Diminishing Intent,” which is the tendency for humans to start doing something with a high degree of energy and enthusiasm before gradually slowing down until they stop or give up entirely.
This blog post will examine the Law of Diminishing Intent and its applications in our everyday lives. I will be using the Law of Diminishing Intent in describing the dynamics that happen between students and teachers. However, the Law of Diminishing Intent can apply to almost every area of life.
I have come across quite a number of people complaining about their high school teachers. It usually happens when a student gets to high school. I’ve also heard from students who argue that they hate their teachers, but never say why. This is because once you enter high school, it’s hard to get out. Your options are limited – you only have one, big diploma to show for your four years there.
In school, our teachers usually have an advantage. It’s very hard to measure a teacher’s effectiveness because we don’t see the teacher at work on a regular basis. It also becomes very difficult to evaluate when they don’t want us to evaluate them. That doesn’t even touch on the fact that most teachers are trying their best. So why would students think that their teachers are doing something wrong?
The answer is fairly simple: They give up before their time comes, which is a form of sabotage.. Students usually give up when they don’t understand what the teacher is trying to do. They assume that the teacher is not being clear, which can be true – if a teacher understands the material better than anyone else, they are probably not always very clear. In cases like this, the student will tend to ask a lot of questions, even though they already have enough knowledge of the subject. In other words, instead of asking questions that would make their teachers’ job easier, they ask a lot of questions that make it harder for their teachers just to keep on doing their work.
Students often think that all requests are unreasonable and try to avoid asking them. This is a very common behavior among teenagers. When I was a kid, I learned that “help me” was always a better idea than “I don’t know how.” This is particularly true in math, where there are several ways to solve an equation. Instead of asking for help on the specific problem they are having trouble with, students will often ask, “How do you do this?” This makes their teachers have to tell them everything they know about the subject before dealing with their actual problem. This can often make it feel like the student is being uncooperative.
However, this is not always their intention. They might wish to avoid working on a problem and assume that by asking for help, they will save their teacher’s time by doing the job for them. This attitude, however, only makes the math teacher’s job harder. It also makes the students feel less prepared to take a test and causes them to give up on learning.
This behavior can be seen in other subjects as well – students will ask teachers questions, but not because they want to learn what they have been studying all year long. They just want to know what they have been studying. You can see it in their attitude toward assignments. They might not do the work, but they’ll definitely do whatever it takes to get the evaluation from their teacher.
To students, teachers are someone who acts a certain way and expects certain behavior from them. They don’t typically think of them as being people who are just like other people and make mistakes like everyone else. Instead, they think that teachers are supposed to be perfect and cannot possibly make mistakes or act inappropriately – which is an idea that most teachers fervently hope to instill in their students as well.
Sometimes, even when the teacher says “go write an essay”, a student will ask to borrow their pen because they don’t have one. When a teacher sees this, he might have a moment of consternation because he can’t imagine why his student would need his pen. However, when the student hands it back to him and he takes it, he is happy because it means that there are no permanent consequences for borrowing the pen. The better course of action is to never lend anything out in the first place – and if you do lend something out, be very explicit in terms of what you want back.
This isn’t to say that borrowing is inherently wrong. Sometimes it is essential, particularly if you are going to borrow something expensive. However, if the pen is something small and cheap, go ahead and take it. It really doesn’t do any harm for you to borrow the pen for a couple of minutes.
In spite of this attitude toward borrowing things, many students will often ask teachers for assignments even though they have already signed up with a tutor. This is because students will often wait until the last minute to ask for help from a tutor. They are likely to tell you that asking for help from a tutor is “weird” and selfish. This, however, does not mean that asking for tutoring assignments is wrong.
Instead of waiting until the last minute and then having tutors put in extra work to accommodate their student’s erratic schedule, it would be much better if students made the effort to sign up with tutors in advance – this way they wouldn’t have to worry about getting in a panic or feeling bad about having to ask their teachers for help while they are already busy doing something else.
Parents don’t always realize that this is their job. Parents often feel like it is the teachers’ job to teach students, not theirs. They are usually surprised to find that it is not only possible but also much easier for the teacher to turn students away than the parents. To some extent, the parents are right – it’s a lot easier for teachers to say no, and it would be a real shame if they stopped being able to say no simply because a parent asked them not to.
However, many teachers will continue saying yes out of guilt towards their students.
Conclusion
There is a big difference between being a good student and being a good person. Being a good person is an attitude that requires putting other people’s needs before yours. You might think that you should always treat others the way you want to be treated, but that doesn’t really work, because people are not going to be nice to you if they know that they can get away with it. Getting your parents or teachers to treat you well is the first step to making sure that they do so. Asking them for help when you need it and allowing them access to things in your life can go a long way when it comes to getting what you want out of life – especially when it comes to education.