Motivation

What motivates me to learn the chemistry that we are learning this year?

There are a lot of things that interest me, for which there is no immediate outside cause for my motivation. I believe, personally, that I am naturally curious with the how, not so much as the why, for all sorts of things. Even if something does not have a clear application in the real world, it may still interest me in knowing how it works.
I believe this is the cause for my interests in different subjects at school, my motivation to do well in them, and as a result my grades in these subjects. A curiosity for explanations of how things work lends itself well to subjects like science or mathematics, which aim to explain how things work. Subjects like English or History are not as concerned with the explanation of how things became the way that they are, and do not lend themselves well to such explanations. As a result, I am not as naturally interesting in these subjects, and do not do as well in them. But things like math and science naturally interest me, so I need no outside source of motivation to learn them well. This, I believe, is my source of motivation to learn the Chemistry that we learn.