Making connections- I related this passage with multiple things in my life. The first quote I caught onto was when the author said "there are always new challenges, there is always room for improvement" (303). When I read this, it immediately reminded me of my CNA class teacher saying something along the lines of "everything in the medical field is changing, you will always be learning" because the basic CNA skills you test on literally get modified every year so there is no moment you stop soaking up new and improved knowledge. So that's always stuck with me because everything is evolving, research is becoming more prominent, hence that quote sticking out to me. The second text to self and possibly world, is when he mentioned "students confronted with a syllabus or an assignment can find it difficult to get beyond the mindset of "what do I need to do to get an A?"" (303) I found this a little funny because while looking at my classes with Jamie she said first things first lets print out your syllabus' because that's basically the key to passing classes, follow that page of loosely written hints and instructions. I also connected it to world because I know that's also how majority of other students handle classes you know? No one really tries to be unique or different or tries to express themselves on their terms, they just kind of do what needs to be done to get that good grade.

Key terms/Main ideas- Extrinsic motivation(s): A reward or inducement by an external person or entity to compel a person to act. This to me is basically just like saying outside influences are influencing your goals and standards while making you not care as much about your own best interests. Examples are good, grades, lots of money, a good job, marriage, things that maybe you don't value as much as the next person but still have them as goals because of some type of outside forces.
Audience: The assembled spectators or listeners at a public event. The author talks a lot about finding a specific audience you want to write to instead or finding out your own interests and openly writing about them with no regards to who comes with the same interests.
Purpose- The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. Not only does this relate to the title but it makes me think the basic questions about purpose. Things like what are you trying to accomplish by writing this? What do you want readers to gain from it? and what makes it worth your time? I think when writing personal statements you should always ask those questions before typing to see what comes to mind.
Autonomy: Freedom from external control or influence; independence. For our class. we only have majority control over a couple elements and he talks about more of having complete control, which I think is weird. 
Connections:  A relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked to or associated with something else. When he talks about building up your blog, he mentions connections, but not like famous people, he talks more in the sense of building a community, or safe space that your connect to or are truly interested in and that's how your blogging grows, instead of just following popular blogs or going with what's new.

Commentary- "To make things potentially worse, being an expert isn't necessarily all that it would seems to be. As one discovers with almost anything one dedicates ones time to, there is no ceiling, no final destination, on the path of mastery"- I definitely don't think all people want to defeat or conquer the thing they enjoy doing or finish pursing it, I think a lot of people enjoy the rush or enjoy the chase of getting at it. Its not where you're going its how you get there. I also wanted to go back and cover the moment where he mentioned autonomy because I didn't really explain the weird aspect I found. I don't understand why he went on a huge shpeel about autonomy when he clearly stated himself this is probably for students to read and youre going to have to blog about it. So why talk about all this freedom in writing when the audience really doesn't have the freedom your assuming we do? That bugged me.

source: "Why blog?"