THE LIFE OF JOSH HAMILTON

Guidepost July 2009

Summary:

This is a article about Josh Hamilton life. He was a great baseball player who was moving himself up to the major leagues. He received a conract from the Tampa Bay. His parents quit their jobs and decided to move with him and take care of him. One night Josh and his parents were in a car accident that left him injured in his back. Josh ended up moving back home and trying to get hisself well. He was very depressed and started hanging out with some guys who would party really hard. He ended up doing cocaine. Josh became addicted and could not get back to his normal life. He started treatment centers and he thought he was over his addiction. He met a girl name Karen and they got married and had a child. One day he got side track on life and started using again. Karen kick him out of the house and his parents would not help him since he did not want to help hisself. The only person who would take him in was his grandmother. She started talking to him and telling him to pray and God would make things better. Josh went on with his partying and cocaine use until one day when he hit bottom he just knelt down and prayed. After several months Josh was back to his normal life and trying to be a great husband and a dad. He started back playing baseball regularley until he received a call from the Cincinnati Reds wanting to take a chance on him. In 2007 he was able to play his first game and when he appeard on the field, all the fans and family stood up and clapped for him with tears in his eyes.

Relation to Class:

In Chapter 8, p.298 it talks about motivation and emotion. Modivation is the influences that account for the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence of behavior. There are four main sources of human motivation. First, can be motivated by biological factors, such as the need for food and water. Josh's source was cocaine. Second, emotional factors, suchas as panic, fear, anger, love, and hatred can influence behavior ranging from selfless giving to brutal murder. Hosh loved baseball and his family so he motivated hisself to getting treated. Cognitive factors is the third source . Your perception of the world, your beliefs about what you can do, and your expectations of how others will respond generate certain behaviors. In Josh's life heworked really hard to keep clean so he could injoy playing baseball and being with his love ones. Being able to play in the major leagues and having people clap for you because they were proud of you. The fourth source can be social factors, influence of parents, teachers, siblings, friends, television, and other sociocultural forces. Josh's was kicked out of his wife's house , his parents would not have anything to do with him, so his only chance of recovery was his grandmother. She feed him and made sure he had a place to sleep.