What motivates us
#1
Posted 13 December 2011 - 10:55 AM
This video might be more about business ideology, but it does dig quite well into personal motivations as well. What is your primary motivational force in your daily life?
"I give you private information on corporations for free and I'm a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's 'Man of the Year.'" - Assange
#3
Posted 13 December 2011 - 12:54 PM
It's incredible how omnipotent and infallible you believe yourself to be. That Steve Jobs speech hits that spot pretty well:
Its a crime that we don't learn more about how to motivate ourselves. One might even say its a well kept secret.
"I give you private information on corporations for free and I'm a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's 'Man of the Year.'" - Assange
#4
Posted 13 December 2011 - 01:02 PM
Break dancing into the hearts of millions
#5
Posted 13 December 2011 - 04:32 PM
It somehow explains why I am never motivated during school year, yet why I sometimes do my own projects when I have free time in vacations.
#6
Posted 13 December 2011 - 07:33 PM
Radspakr: Vanity seems like a bad motivator, at the very least a bad definition of your motivation. "If you don't know your true values, prepare for pain".
Another guy that is good at this is Tony Robbins, he has been doing this since the 90s though. He also has a ted-talk about motivation, so I might post a tube of him as well. He high-fives Al gore in it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpc-t-Uwv1I
Edited by duke_Qa, 13 December 2011 - 07:49 PM.
"I give you private information on corporations for free and I'm a villain. Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's 'Man of the Year.'" - Assange
#7
Posted 13 December 2011 - 07:43 PM
Not sure on my motivations. Despite my pessimistic attitude there's a small, irreducible core of optimism that it gets better. Slight discord between my nihilistic philosophy and my melioristic/socialist politics. That core's not going to go any time soon, but if it does
Of course I have no idea what career I want. But I do seem to have found a love for linguistics at the moment... I just wish I could do more of it, other than one paper this year. Well, part of one paper. Linguistics and philosophy I want to engage more with, simply because I can't face the prospect of not thinking about these fundaments.
#8
Posted 28 December 2011 - 03:53 PM
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