Unravelling The Crisis Of Motivation

For self motivated people, normal life is not enough. Steve Jobs is a s great example.

Great video. I would fall under intrinsically motivated, but I struggle because extrinsically motivated people interfere with my work, often to the point that they become intrinsically motivated to interfering with me sheerly to bring me to a lower state of fulfillment than they seems to experience. This undermining of my own motivation is a lifelong issue, even as a child my ability or freedom to explore my own inherent desires (that calling you mention; I knew mine at around 9 years of age), goals, and fulfillment were undermined by my family in order to bring my potential down to make those less motivated than myself feel better at their own achievements. At this point in my life it isn't family, but neighbors, landlords, even peers that see that I am driven to do what I do and chase me like a dog decides to chase someone that is running, turning my intrinsic motivation to achieve goals into an extrinsic motivation to simply endure. I am in n position to change this, I lack the means, and even acquiring the means becomes impossible because of the interference that transmogrifies my intrinsic motivation into extrinsic.

Juxtaposing this with modern men in general, perhaps it is the beneficiaries of nepotism or societal favoritism (women via feminism) that creates a similar affect. Bringing men down, interfering with their intrinsic motivations, hindering them, creates the landscape we have now of the 'wastrels' or the lazy, shiftless, unmotivated men. Their intrinsic motivations stifled for the sake of equity, to bring them down rather than to challenge others to do better or pursue their affinities rather than benefit from elite lineage or socially acceptable quotas.

The education system is a great example of what I mean as well. Rather than permitting each to learn according to their capacity boys are suppressed in learning through doing and expected to learn through stillness and instruction, stifling a boy's inherent curiosity, team skills, problem solving, etc. This is not to say all boys (my 'calling' is very much the opposite of that), but boys in general have been repressed to accommodate girls, and so these men we have now are the natural outcome. It's just as much a simple 'cause and effect' as modern college conditioning curriculum around socialistic ideology, only to see that ideology emerge in places of business and entertainment once those students graduate into full-fledged adults and enter the work force, having each been shaped in one way or another by these ideologies.