Mind Map

Even after narrowing down to 2 goals that I want to achieve, I still find the topic too broad and am a little lost, especially to find a concept that is able to wrap everything up. There's only 2 weeks left! D:

Maybe 2 goals is too much. But the reason why I have 2 goals is because I thought goal 1 is a little too shallow, I wanted something that holds a deeper meaning hence leading to why I want to find out what motivates people. Anyway a recap of my 2 goals:
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1. To investigate and understand how the encouragement of striving one’s best push or even dampen one’s capabilities to achieve.

2. Find out what motivates people.

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I plotted a mind map to see how these 2 objectives can link together. So what I concluded in the end was, one must have his own drive in order to perservere/motivate to achieve a goal such as work or studies which is also where words such as ganbatte/jiayou/do your best is most frequently used in.

But what about non-specific-goal oriented circumstances such as when a person is feeling down. These encouragement words don't sound as appropriate does it. That's when these specific words of encouragement turn out to have slight negative reactions.

I'm planning to do a survey to get more thoughts about this subject.

To come back to the project brief, with all these thoughts and information, what kind of book will it form up to be? Something infographic? Hmm but it doesn't seem to be wrapping enough. Let me attempt to write a concept statement.

Singapore being a multi racial country, a mix of languages is often used in the local scene. This project aims to investigate how the words of encouragement in striving one’s best, specifically in terms such as the Chinese’s “Jiayou 加油” and the japanese’s “Ganbatte がんばって” which both commonly translate as “doing one’s best” in English, push or even dampen one’s capabilities to achieve. In doing so, motivation to achieve in general mankind is examined and linked back to the subject of how these specific words from an external party play a part in motivation.

Okay, I hope this concept statement is nailed down and then I can start thinking what to do visually with this concept.