Motivation
Motivation is something that people don't really think about consciously,
yet something qutie important. Surely everything we do is driven by some form
of motivation. Because we want to achieve something, so at least have a good
reason for acting the way we do. Pleasures aside, there are a lot of things
that we do from day to day, which we might not enjoy, maybe even dislike,
but we do them nonetheless, perhaps even work hard at them, for one reason
or another.
But maybe people don't often pause to think about what it is that keeps us going,
to work hard, study hard, and do the things that we might not enjoy so much,
in order to achieve something?
More often than not, that something is money. But I remember quite early on
in an Economics class, our teacher gave us a task: list the things that you
really want in life. You can list anything that you want, however, you must
not list money as one of your items.
Many of us were puzzled. Because we were all tempted to put down money as our
very first item on the list. Not just money, but LOTS of money. Who wouldn't
want to be rich?
But come to think of it, while money can buy many things, what can it do by
itself? Nothing really. What is money anyway? Pieces of paper? Numbers in your
bank account?
So some said, well, with lots of money, you can afford luxuries, you feel
secured, and you will be able to own many things that you may only have
dreamt of in the past. So list down those things! Our Economics teacher said.
List that you want a nice house, you want to feel secured, anything, anything
but money...
These days, it seems that most of us are still motivated by money, almost
blindly, without thinking about why we want so much money for. If I ask you,
what will you do with $1 million, you can probably give me a long list of
things that you will buy. But if I ask you, what will you do with $10 billion
dollars, you might be at a loss, knowing that you cannot possibly spend so much
money. Perhaps you can keep it for your future generations, but that's really
beside the point.
The thing is, even though few can think of what to do with $10 billion, I'm sure
no one in their right mind will refuse to earn that much money anyway. In fact,
the way most people work, it seems that they are aiming to earn as much as they
possibly could. I'm not saying that that's wrong. I just wonder what the true
motivation is behind earning lots of money, that's all.
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