words per minute
13
PrinceTripathi
00:00
Speed
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive.
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward.
But both those methods are only temporary.
The only lasting thing is self-motivation.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to
stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look
at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken
for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts.
It is good business to have an employee feel part of the entire effort …
I motivate people, I hope, by example-and perhaps by excitement, by
having provocative ideas to make others feel involved.
The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and
one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing
that you’ve just done something as well as you can do it.
I am motivated simply by my awareness of the impact today's
actions have on tomorrow's circumstances.
View is our orientation, and how we orient our life is intimately connected with our motivation. Traditionally, the Buddhist teachings list three kinds of motivation: small, medium, and large. These levels of motivation describe how we evolve on the path of enlightenment. When we wake up in the morning, where is our mind taking us? Whatever it is, from motivation, everything else will arise.
If our motivation is small, we will use our day getting the “stuff” we think will make us happy--food, clothing, and friends. If it's a little bigger, we might add some yoga to make us feel better. We might even expand it further to think about the karmic consequences of our actions--but it's still all about "me". With a medium-level motivation, we're no longer so fixated on our own happiness; the basis of our actions is loving-kindness and compassion. We're maturing. With the largest motivation, we put the happiness of others before our own. This is the motivation of the Buddha. If we get up in the morning and the first thought that comes to mind is, "There are so many sentient beings; even if I amd the last person on earth, I will stay here to help them," that is a very big view. Motivation is just an attitude, and it's free. So why not have a big motivation?