Why is it that with some stuff you really feel motivated and find it easy to do while with other stuff you procrastinate? 

Let me open by sharing something from my life.

For much of my life no-one has really had to ask me to speak up. I have always been very comfortable sharing my thoughts without being asked, including issues people apparently did not want to know at the time.

I have to say the feedback I got was seldom positive, as I am sure you can appreciate. Especially when I was a teenager, in a classroom. 

While this was not so bad on its own, I also have to mention that I almost always procrastinated on doing my homework. To be honest, it was not that I wanted to fail, in fact I really wanted to win, but the reality of sitting quietly at a desk, for long periods of time, in silence, writing endlessly about a subject I was not interested in, just blew my mind. 

So yes, the two aspects of who I am often did not go over well, which perhaps explains why high school was a struggle for me and I spent a fair bit of my time outside or saying hello to the headmaster, again . I will always remember a comment from my Housemaster when I was 15 - "Simon is an exuberant and energetic young man who might need to learn a bit of tact as he grows up".

However, there was one subject I loved and the teacher was amazing. That was Mathematics. For some strange reason I could sit still in that class and listen for hours, and the homework was so much easier to complete even though I found it challenging.

What feedback have you had in your life about what has and has not motivated you?

How has that affected your "relationship" with motivation?

How has that affected how you feel about yourself?