Den ganzen Tag motiviert bleiben

0:00I don't think many people actually have any idea where the motivation comes from because like answering why is very difficult. >> Uh and so we know that we have a lot of independent variables that created a behavior set that increased the odds of achievement. >> Can we have a you know double blind placebo control study to say like was it because you know your dad didn't hug you too much or he hugged you too hard >> or it was for this period of time or it was because somebody at school said a certain thing or a teacher treated you a certain way. It's like yes and all of it and none of it.

0:31>> Um I think that from a drive perspective um I see motivation as the equal opposite of deprivation. So like what are the things that we feel like we lack? Um and so like if you're super hungry uh it's because you lack food. If you're if you're very driven to sleep, you you're sleepd deprived. >> And so having some sort of desire is like I think key to having drive. like you have you feel like there's some lack that you want to fill or achieve. Um but for me I think uh I do think it shifts and so I think that like the nature of the motivation can change. Um and I'll give you a really dark example but I think it really drives the point home. So Albert Kimu who's one of my favorite philosophers says the meaning of your life is the reason you don't kill yourself which people at face value because you say the word you know kill yourself people get really triggered by that but it's more so I think it has a very positive slant to it which is that

1:24>> if someone truthfully answers the question they're like well I couldn't because like my family my friends my my team my the you know the company and so I think the meaning for a lot of people's life isn't just one thing it could be many things >> um and said differently instead of like what is the meaning of your life if you say what does your life mean to you >> it kind kind of brings on different different thoughts around the topic. And so why are you so driven? Um I feel like has similar kind of undertones to like what does the meaning of your life or what does your life mean to you? Uh what does your work mean to you?

1:57>> Um I think answering that question can get a little bit closer at something that's more tangible. >> Um and so for me I do things I like with people I like and that's what I try to maximize. And I a lot of people say this, but like I really believe that the middle path has been my like is my current flow right now, which is that uh I made enough that I I really didn't need to work for, you know, when I was about 31. At that point, I was like I I really don't need to do anything. So I took about a year and in that period of time my conclusion was because I just you know I'd come off of a big work season and then I took basically that year off and I knew that taking the year off was not for me. um I needed to do stuff and so then I came up with like hard work is the goal that became my like operating um IMO and I've done that for probably five years now since then and I would say that I'm now in another kind of like post-launch cycle um where I have a little bit like obviously I didn't sell the company or anything like that but like I have a little bit of a period of kind of reflection and so for me I think that the beauty of entrepreneurship or lease life exists in the contrast and so like when you are when you're single, you want to be married. When you're married, you want to be single. Obviously, I'm taking that, you know, just extremes. There's desires on both sides, right? Um in in the same degree, like when you're working a ton, you're like, I just want a day off.

3:24>> Yeah. >> But when you take a lot of days off, you're like, I just can't wait to get back to work. And so, it's like like we are the problem, right? >> And so, if we are never satisfied, even when we get what we want, we want something different. It's really just the desire for novelty. And so then it's like, okay, how can I engineer novelty into my day-to-day existence? And so contrast is the one that I've been thinking a lot about, which then comes down to like, you know, Buddhist middle path. Like it's and I think that balancing the middle is actually significantly harder than doing the extremes. Like in the beginning, you don't you can't do anything because you're not motivated. You have you have to figure out like the basics, right?

3:55Right. Once you start working, you get rewarded for working and you just basically most people go all the way to the other side and just work all the time. >> Mh. And that's a I mean and I I have no judgment of should and should not just kind of like observation. >> Um but for me coming back to like how much skill is required I think there's more skill that's required to basically design um a cadence around ideal or optimal living.

4:23>> And for some people that will be less work than others. For me it's probably more work than most people do in their maxed out state. But I know that if I if I have a handful of things that occur on a weekly basis or monthly basis, I kind of maintain that contrast. So that gives me the longevity to pursue significantly longer goals >> um that are more meaningful to me. So >> it's a longwinded answer for me.