Different things motivate different people. While you may be motivated to get good grades and get a scholarship to an Ivy League college after high school, your classmate's motivation might be to finish high school and go backpacking around the world. Do some research on the Internet and at the school library, and write about the four different types of external and internal motivations: extrinsic, intrinsic, identified, and introjected, and provide examples for each. Also, consider a situation in which you were highly motivated (it does not have to be academic), and describe your motivation and the outcome of the situation.