Intrinsic Motivation

Jani1157 · 2016-04-24T23:54:58+00:00

First step is to be honest with yourself. Who are you? Can you devote 5 hours straight to a goal a day? No then compensate, as long as your doing something, it's no longer about if you'll get there, but when.

I break my work load into hours, from 1-2 I'm going to study. From 3-4 I'm going to read RP, some days I mix it up and others I don't do shit. Image what you want your life to look life and continue to remind yourself the process is going to get you there.

Carbone · 2016-04-25T04:35:01+00:00

Gave you an upvote I'm interested in the answer you will get.

ShounenEgo · 2016-04-25T09:05:51+00:00

It may not be what you want to hear, because frankly I could go on about what motivates me and you won't connect. So what I'll do is link you 2 lectures that helped me tremendously with finding my own meaning in my life. And that's coming from me, who found solace in hedonism to avoid taking responsibility and do what's good for himself in the long term.

The first is this and the second is this. They're in total roughly 2 hours long.

Shamlei · 2016-04-26T10:16:34+00:00

First as you said motivation (even intrinsic) is useless because even for the things you love to do / will get you to the place you want to be you'll need a lot of discipline (See why at the end.)

I was in your shoes one year ago, didn't really know what was my goal in life and was just simply wandering through it. So I simply took the activity I was doing the most (videogames) and planned on either get into streaming seriously or try finding a game where i could become pro (All it takes is just the hours you're willing to put in, for both.)

I then realized that I didn't like playing videogames (Yet i was doing that 4-12 hours / day) I was infact enjoying the systems and looking at how the game was made ect..

So I downloaded a game engine, started to learn coding and I made my first game (2D basic Platformer) and I loved everystep in doing that. What happened after that ?

Nothing, just played video games.

Why ? because despite loving the process to create that game, it was hard and tedious, I had to learn coding, learn about the engine, Getting stuck on X bug for Y amount of time ect...

You asked what makes me get up in the morning ? It's discipline.

I found my mission, i want to create the best games i can and tell stories to people and make them feel a certain way while they're playing them, I want to connect to people by this way, and if i can someday make enough money to actually be able to do that 24/7 then I know i'll be the happiest man on Earth.

But it's not what makes me get up, i used my vision to motivate me to create a plan and discipline which i'm 100% sure it will take me to my "dream life" if I follow it.

So I'll give you some directions :

Search for the hobby you enjoy the most (Start searching by heading towards the things you do the most, then start experimenting on random hobbies if you didn't find yet.)
Find a way to produce something of value out of that hobby (Not necessarily something physical it could be entertainment like streaming or just giving advices like the ton of blogs about self-development.)
After all that, use your motivation to make a plan, list everything about where you are today (Money,Physique,Sex Life, everything you can thing about), and about where you want to be ultimately. Compare both and make a list of all the good habits that needs to be implemented and all the bad habits that needs to be moved out of your life in order to get there.
Make a plan to implement those habits one at a time and develop the discipline needed to follow through everyday.

I am a strong believer in making plans before doing things because you can't allow yourself to run around like a headless chicken, once you have your plan all that matters is following it and you'll be good that's why despite making plans and searching for your vision you have to ACT on them.

Here is a good blueprint on how to implement good habits and destroy bad ones.

Title	Intrinsic Motivation
Author	awayofthought
Upvotes	5
Comments	4
Date	April 24, 2016 10:52 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
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