What Is Working Interest?

Interest is the psychological tendency of people to know something or engage in certain activities. It is based on the need to recognize and explore external things, and is an important motivation to promote people to understand things and explore the truth.

Interest is the psychological tendency of people to know something or engage in certain activities. It is based on the need to recognize and explore external things, and is an important motivation to promote people to understand things and explore the truth. There are direct and indirect interests. The interest in acquiring knowledge is direct, and the interest in learning foreign languages in order to acquire knowledge is indirect. Interests are formed by individuals for a long time in life, or they are occasionally inspired by something under certain right circumstances.

Interest can have a positive impact on people's perceptions and activities, but it may not be conducive to improving the quality and effectiveness of work.

Interests are socially constraining. People have different characteristics due to different historical conditions and social environments. ^[1]

The well-known perceptual scientist Gibson once pointed out that the behavior of early infants guided by perception and attention can occur without any learning. Human babies show a tendency to respond to external physical or social stimuli after birth, so it is considered on the one hand as the continuation of the emotional arousal state of animals in humans (interest is considered to be avoided by lower animals Behavior is gradually internalized into a state of the brain), and on the other hand is considered to be an intrinsic source of human interest and curiosity.

Personality psychologist Allport believes that humans have an "autonomous function", that is, interest, which is the emotional state, and is at the deepest level of motivation, which can drive people to action. Early infants' response to external stimuli is a body movement interest motivated by the intrinsic motivation of interest. From the birth of the baby, it is manifested by the function of the body. The baby's watching, listening, making sounds and actions are stimulated and guided by the emotion of interest; interest also supports the coordination between feeling and movement and the development of motor skills. Lay the groundwork for growth and development; emotional awakenings such as lack of interest can lead to severe mental retardation or apathy.

Herbart analyzed the mental state of interest. He believes that there can be two kinds of psychological activities in the state of interest. One is "concentration", a mental activity that "concentrates on any subject or object and excludes other thoughts"; the other is "thinking", which is about "Recollection and reconciliation of consciousness content" is a kind of consciousness activity that coordinates and assimilate old and new ideas. He believes that only through reconsideration activities can the new ideas accepted by concentrated activities and children's original ideas be reconciled to ensure The unity of children's consciousness, therefore, deliberations should be carried out after concentrated activities. The continuation of concentration and reflection activities constitutes the so-called "spiritual breathing activity". He believes that: "Man must have many such countless changes, and then a talented person has a wealth of deliberative activities and the ability to enter every kind of concentrated activity completely according to his own wishes, so it is called multifaceted." ^{[ 2]}

Human interests are diverse, but in general they can be divided into three categories:

First, material interest and spiritual interest. Material interest mainly refers to people's comfortable material life, such as clothing, food, housing, transportation

There are 4 qualities of interest, including:

The tendency of interest refers to the content pointed to by interest. It refers to the material or the spirit; it refers to the noble, or the despicable content.

The breadth of interest refers to the scope of interest. Some people have broad interests, others have narrow interests. Generally speaking, people with broad interests can gain broad knowledge.

The stability of interest means that interest remains on one or some objects for a long time. Only with stability, a talent may form a central interest in a broad background of interest, so that the interest gains depth.

The effectiveness of interest refers to the effect of interest on activities. Anyone who is interested in the effect of actual activity has a large effect, and conversely, the person who has a small effect on actual activity has a small effect. ^[1]

Interest has a huge effect on the formation and development of a person's personality and on one's life and activities. This effect is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, the role of preparation for future activities. For example, for a middle school student who is interested in chemistry, he may be motivated to accumulate a variety of chemical knowledge, study various chemical phenomena, and lay the foundation for future research and work in chemistry.

Second, it will promote the ongoing activities. Interest is a kind of emotional activity with strong emotions, which can make people focus on gaining knowledge and creatively complete current activities. Famous American Chinese Scholar

Interest is an intangible motivation. When we are interested in something or an activity, we are very engaged and impressed.

Interest is the psychological tendency of a human being to seek out something or engage in an activity. For example, some sports fans talk about sports when they talk about it, they want to see it when they encounter sports games, and they are particularly obsessed with sports programs on TV. This means they are interested in sports. Some old Peking opera fans always like to talk about Peking opera and watch Peking opera. When they encounter Peking opera, they will be enthusiastic. This is what they are interested in. The so-called "gongs and sugar can be sold in different ways" means that people's interests are diverse and unique. In practical activities, interest can make people's work goals clear and proactive, so that they can consciously overcome all kinds of hardships and difficulties, obtain the maximum achievements of work, and can continuously experience the joy of success in the process of activities.

So how do you cultivate good interest? There are many ways to cultivate interest, including the following:

Increase knowledge base and cultivate the basis of interest

Knowledge is the basic condition for the generation of interest, so to cultivate a certain interest, there should be some accumulation of knowledge. If you want to cultivate the interest in writing poetry, you should first contact some poetry works, experience the artistic conception of poetry, and understand a little about writing poetry Basic skills, which may inspire interest in poetry writing. It can be said that the more knowledgeable people are, the broader their interests are; the less knowledgeable people, their interest will also be poor.

Fun activities to develop direct interest

The so-called direct interest is people's interest in the external characteristics of things or activities themselves. It is a new kind of sensory stimulus produced by students to fresh things or content. This stimulus response is strong but brief. Every time we take a new lesson, students often show great interest, and it is easier to motivate, but since the review class, the students' interest is not as good as before, and some even with the deepening of the teaching, the difficulty Increased, leading to loss of interest. Direct interest is interested in the activity itself, so to cultivate this direct interest, the activity itself should be rich and interesting. For example, interesting game activities can arouse children's interest in participating in group activities and experience social roles; novel teaching content and interesting teaching methods can arouse students' interest in learning knowledge; vivid extracurricular practice activities can train students to learn Interests in practical operation, manual brain, invention and creation; carrying out labor competitions, sports competitions, and cultural and sports activities can stimulate students' enthusiasm and interest in labor, learning, sports, and cultural and sports activities.

Clarify the meaning of purpose and cultivate indirect interest

The so-called indirect interest is the interest that arises after people have a clear understanding of the outcome of the activity and its significance. This interest is caused by the recognition of the meaning and value of learning. It has a sense of reason and is closely associated with personal orientation. It has a long-term vision and a long-term orientation. It does not repent easily when it encounters setbacks. . In teaching, it is not difficult to find such a situation: teaching a class of students to play basketball, showing the same high enthusiasm, but encountering a relatively boring practice, some students are showing impatient appearance , Attention is not concentrated, and basketball is not so fun, but students who have participated in basketball training and experienced the baptism of important basketball games are not uninterested. On the contrary, it is more challenging for him to learn and improve. Make sense of your game. This is the biggest difference between direct interest and indirect interest. Indirect interest is interested in the result or meaning of the activity. Therefore, to cultivate people's indirect and stable interest, people should be clear about the purpose and meaning of the activity.

It should be pointed out that we want direct and indirect interests. What kind of interest should we pursue? There is no doubt the latter. In fact, many people do not realize the true meaning of interest in teaching. Generally, it only develops the direct interest of students. This interest more tests the instinct of the students. The teacher does not need to spend too much time to inspire. He relies on a new and exciting stimulus, which is the nature of things. In order to satisfy the students' direct interests, some teachers use the method of sheeping sheep, which is very undesirable. This method cannot effectively cultivate the students indirect interests. In practice, we can see that the goat-going sheep will eventually reduce the enthusiasm of most students to participate in sports activities, either go to chat or return to the classroom to do homework. There is a process to transition from direct interest to indirect interest. This is the process of teacher teaching, and it is also the process of students mastering technology and improving skills through repeated or even boring exercises. When a student uses the skills he has acquired to get the sport and the thrill of success, and feels the infinite charm of sports, he can have a sense of the meaning of this skill, then this can make direct and indirect interests happen With the transfer, the interest of the students is really built up.

It seems that the excitement of interest lies mainly in the direct interest of students, and the cultivation is indirect interest in students. We usually pay attention to the direct interests of students and ignore the indirect interests of students. As a result, students' interests are not really established. For example, students like sports rather than physical classroom visits is an example.

Cultivate excellent quality of interest based on your own characteristics of interest

Because the environment, education and subjective conditions of all people are different, the interests of students have individual characteristics, so self-cultivation of interests and hobbies should be carried out according to their own conditions. For example, if someone has a wide range of interests but does not concentrate, he should strengthen the cultivation of the central interest; if there is a single but not wide range of interests, he should strengthen the cultivation of the wide range of interests; if someone's interests are transient and changeable, he should strengthen the cultivation of interest stability; Negative and passive, we should strengthen the cultivation of the effectiveness of interest; if someone is interested in the network world, it is easy to sink, then we must strengthen guidance, and at the same time pay attention to the cultivation of these young people's noble personality.