I will migrate to my parents’ home this week. Due to preparation for it, the articles will be concise for a while.
Let’s talk about motivation today.
How to obtain motivation
Sometimes, we want to get motivated without using imagination.
Imagination often drives us to the ideal images. Although it provides energy at first, it exhausts us soon.
In other words, we want a motivation that can be sustained while taking adequate breaks.
That is why we want to gain energy without stressful impatience.
One solution is to focus on the reasons. They include preferences and curiosity. They provide us with sustainable, healthy motivation. Today, I will introduce them.
Two types of motivation
There are two types of motivation, as follows:
- Empathic motivation: Imagining ideals and the possibility of that pathway gives us energy.
- Logical motivation: Reasons give us energy. They include likes, dislikes, and curiosity.
If you want sustainable energy and take a break moderately, choose the latter—logical motivation.
Liking, disliking, and curiosity
The reason itself provides motivation. Although it may look complicated, it is not difficult at all.
Focus on your liking, disliking, and curiosity. They are part of the reasons.
Many people misunderstand that they are emotional, but they are logical. Empathy makes it difficult to understand them.
For example, liking and disliking are reasons, not symptoms of illness. We don’t need to ask ourselves why we love it or hate it. The reason is we like it; we do it because we like it. No more persuasive reason can be obtained beyond that, no matter how much we consider why we prefer it.
They don’t harm us as long as we are rational, as I explained in the previous article (this article).
Why empathy confuses us
However, empathy forces us to think of it because it fears the state without imaginable goals. That is why we ask ourselves, “What is the purpose of doing that?” It means, “I want an image of the goal!”
Rationally speaking, the answer is, “I don’t know.” We never know where our preferences and curiosity will take us.
It is unreasonable to figure out our goals in life from when we are babies or children. Without trying, we will not understand them. Perhaps we will not know until the moment we die.
That is why we can proceed without impatience. We don’t have exciting imaginations. That allows us to rest adequately.
Conclusion
That is why reasons provide us with energy without stressful impatience.
They include preferences and curiosity.
This logic might provide you with sustainable, healthy motivation.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
