What keeps you going day after day?

[jafo]

Warren Buffett used to quip that every day when he wakes up, he tap dances to work.

What keeps you positively going day after day and what do you do to keep that motivation and discipline growing? 🙄

 

[CEO]

My case :

1. God and true Faith, otherwise I will ditch everything.

2. Passion and big mission : you probably never going to stop.

3. Helping people: when you give more you receive more. Karma, not the Indian crap 😉

Hello everyone 🤣

 

[void]

motivation is something built in living organisms - the desire to survive and thrive is the essence of life (as a phenomena/structure temporarily resisting entropy in a short period of time)

humans evolved to the only animals that support (and often basically create) individuals that can successfully survive and procreate doing nothing in the account of others

I know I didn't answer your question but it's hard to resist to point out some questions are too anthropocentric 😉

 

[jafo]

motivation is something built in living organisms - the desire to survive and thrive is the essence of life (as a phenomena/structure temporarily resisting entropy in a short period of time)

humans evolved to the only animals that support (and often basically create) individuals that can successfully survive and procreate doing nothing in the account of others

I know I didn't answer your question but it's hard to resist to point out some questions are too anthropocentric 😉

All POV are welcome! 😉

 

[marketint1]

I think René Girard decoded desire very well.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Motivation eventually fades, instinct and habits are what really drive humans and all other animals.
If you build good habits (which are all related to health - mental and physical), every day is a good day!

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I think René Girard decoded desire very well.

His theory of desire is crap (like about everything he wrote).
For example, it is evident that not all desires come from outside the individual, as he claims. Take hunger, sexual attraction, intellectual curiosity, love of music etc.

 

[marketint1]

His theory of desire is crap (like about everything he wrote).
For example, it is evident that not all desires come from outside the individual, as he claims. Take hunger, sexual attraction, intellectual curiosity, love of music etc.

Party true but Girard never denied biological drives. His point was that humans imitate desires far more than they realize.

There is a reason Peter Thiel, one of his former students, took his ideas very seriously. I don’t like Peter Thiel but he is not stupid.

 

[compromised]

There are plenty of incentives and motivations out there, but for me, the greatest joy comes from constantly challenging myself to push beyond my current limits and leveling up my skills.

The best part is that the more I learn, the less dependent I become on others, and that has saved me a massive amount of stress and headaches over the years. Realizing that I’ll never truly be “done” learning gives me a huge surge of energy and motivation.

That's why I consider my life to be exciting rather than exhausting.

 

[Paratore]

Hatred and spite.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Hatred and spite.

Like when they don’t serve you breakfast at 11.34?

 

[Paratore]

Like when they don’t serve you breakfast at 11.34?

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My mother upon watching that movie: “That’s you!”.

I’d like to amend my previous answer to “hatred, spite, and black coffee”.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

btw, checking xmr price always motivates you to wake up in the morning!

 

[jafo]

Hatred and spite.

One of the nicest people I've known used to say this and he channeled his "hatred and spite" to rid the world of bad people causing grief to others. He was very successful at doing it, too.
But as I wrote above: He was one of the nicest people I've ever known. Rich AF and yet would take the time to teach me, a lonely nerdy engineering foreign student, about life. The guy had in the early 90s an Azimut of over 100-ft long. My room of my house I left to come to the US was smaller than my first tiny jail cell (=assault & battery - 5 American kids ganged up on me on the intramural field but none of them knew how to fight, so I boxed their teeth out and I was charged with Assault & Battery by a prosecutor who was friends with their family and remanded to prison by a judge related to the kids 🤐). That "hatred and spite" guy got me a top attorney and made the judge recuse himself and then made the prosecutor drop the charges. Never asked me to pay him back...of course, at that time, I barely had 2 pennies.... I was a teenager with only an academic scholarship.

The point is, the nicest people are the most straightforward ones. You KNOW where you stand with them and they are ROOTS on a tree! They stand strong AF!

I salute you! Cheers!