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In the article “The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives”, the author Anya A Kamenetz is trying to tell us the importance of having mental motivation and how writing down our future goals will help us do better in school. Researcher Jordan Peterson, “believes that writing the answers can be decisive for the students” (p1). He conducted an experiment that “nearly [erased] the gender and ethnic minority achievement gap for 700 students”, when he had them write down their goals (p1).
In this article researcher Jordan Peterson, who is a psychologist at the University of Toronto, explains that his experiment was done by having people write down their thoughts and also emotions. As a result of these experiments, it has “shown that therapeutic or …show more content…

Since I would not accomplish my assignments, I knew this would affect my grade. Now I found ways to stay more organized in my assignments. For example, I now have the habit to write down all my assignments in a planner. Having a planner is very helpful, because now I am able to keep track of each assignment.
The last goal I set for myself is using my time for wisely. Every time I would come back home from school, instead of doing my homework, I would either turn on the TV or use my phone. Later on, I motivated myself to do something more productive. For example, doing and finishing my homework, because I wanted to maintain good grades. I knew that if I wanted to make my parents proud, I would have to do good in school. My parents were my motivation to always try my hardest no matter what.
I feel that a variety of students also struggle with these bad habits each day. No one is perfect, but with the help of Peterson’s research, one can motivate themselves mentally. Not only can they do this by writing down their goals, but also putting them to practice. It may not be easy at first, but writing down some short and long term goals can keep one to stay in school and work hard. An important idea to remember from the article is writing down thoughts and emotions helps one to be less stressed. Putting Jordan Peterson’s research to practice as schools will benefit each student to achieve academic

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