What keeps you going day after day?

My case :

1. God and true Faith, otherwise I will ditch everything.

2. Passion and big mission : you probably never going to stop.

3. Helping people: when you give more you receive more. Karma, not the Indian crap 😉

Hello everyone 🤣

motivation is something built in living organisms - the desire to survive and thrive is the essence of life (as a phenomena/structure temporarily resisting entropy in a short period of time)

humans evolved to the only animals that support (and often basically create) individuals that can successfully survive and procreate doing nothing in the account of others

I know I didn't answer your question but it's hard to resist to point out some questions are too anthropocentric ;)

I think René Girard decoded desire very well.

Motivation eventually fades, instinct and habits are what really drive humans and all other animals.
If you build good habits (which are all related to health - mental and physical), every day is a good day!

marketint1 said:

I think René Girard decoded desire very well.

His theory of desire is crap (like about everything he wrote).
For example, it is evident that not all desires come from outside the individual, as he claims. Take hunger, sexual attraction, intellectual curiosity, love of music etc.

JohnnyDoe said:

His theory of desire is crap (like about everything he wrote).
For example, it is evident that not all desires come from outside the individual, as he claims. Take hunger, sexual attraction, intellectual curiosity, love of music etc.

Party true but Girard never denied biological drives. His point was that humans imitate desires far more than they realize.

There is a reason Peter Thiel, one of his former students, took his ideas very seriously. I don’t like Peter Thiel but he is not stupid.

There are plenty of incentives and motivations out there, but for me, the greatest joy comes from constantly challenging myself to push beyond my current limits and leveling up my skills.

The best part is that the more I learn, the less dependent I become on others, and that has saved me a massive amount of stress and headaches over the years. Realizing that I’ll never truly be “done” learning gives me a huge surge of energy and motivation.

That's why I consider my life to be exciting rather than exhausting.

Hatred and spite.

Paratore said:

Hatred and spite.

Like when they don’t serve you breakfast at 11.34?

JohnnyDoe said:

Like when they don’t serve you breakfast at 11.34?

My mother upon watching that movie: “That’s you!”.

I’d like to amend my previous answer to “hatred, spite, and black coffee”.

btw, checking xmr price always motivates you to wake up in the morning!