Drive: ive been thinking about it alot this week, what does it mean if you have it? Where does it come from? Have our generation lost it? And how can you get it if you want it but don't have it? It's highly amusing to me the amount of people who bitch about their current situation when they actually have the means to change it. Moaning you don't have money because you can't get a job? Do work experience! Volunteer! Do as much as you can to pump up your CV and stop sitting on the sofa bitching about how unfair the employment system is today.
It's funny because in high school it is very clear looking back that the girls in class (Well most anyway) have much more motivation to do work than the males. You gotta wonder if its the fact that blokes dont develop the consequence part of their brain until around the age of 20-22 that they don't think: "Shit if i don't do this piece of work i'm gonna fail, not be able to get my GCSE's and not be able to get a good job" it's more along the lines of " If i don't do this piece of work right now i can play on World of Warcraft/FIFA/Watch Youtube videos all day." Suddenly the prospect of doing that piece of that work no longer looks like a stepping stone to something greater, but the shitty option against the million of probably pointless but more enjoyable tasks you could be undertaking.
Now i'm not saying that guys are some lazy opposite to women, and that women are all motivated and hard working all the time because that would be a huge LIE. But it can be said that men are a heck of a lot more laid back about the future leading to a considerable lack in drive. The amount of men i know who are so laid back they are literally horizontal about allowing things to work out in their own way in their own time is startling. I have noticed that women are alot more organised and plan ahead. You've got to wonder if this roots back to the fact that cave women had to juggle a million things, kids, cooking, cleaning, keeping the caveman husband happy. Whereas cavemen were very single minded, could this be because worrying about a million things at once plus the future is going to lead to some woolly mammoth or saber toothed tiger biting your head off as you stop and contemplate what cave party to attend next week? It is as though just as women have better peripheral vision than men, men have better focus on whats in front of them and have a one track mind, meaning seeing potential complications in the future is diminished as the focus on one task, or even one day at a time.
Drive to succeed is also born, as many people will tell you, from a love of what you are doing. If you really want to be a successful writer, you will sit down and write. If you want to be an elite gymnast you will sacrifice and train, and none of this happens without motivation. A love of success and a passion for what you are doing helps. If you find yourself lacking motivation, perhaps the question shouldn't be how can i get motivated, but rather, why aren't i motivated about this in the first place? Some people just have it, that determination and drive that leads them to whatever they desire (within reason) but maybe drive is something we can learn through trial and error. In everyday life, we have to do things we don't want to do, the dishes, laundry, visiting awful relatives, but at the end of the day you can look at it two ways:
1) I can get this shit done and then forget about it as soon as possible, thus gaining the freedom to do what i choose sooner.
2) I can ignore the fact that i have shit to do and wait until the last possible second thus inducing a mini heart attack and causing the shit i have to do to be rushed and probably less than good quality, even though i get to do what i want to do in the short term.
I cant help but wonder if the reason our generation is seemingly so whiny and lack motivation is because we probably have the most distractions available to us than any generation that has gone before. I mean when my Nan was a kid the most entertaining thing she could think of to do with her afternoon was to knit or play 'Ball in a cup'. I mean hell compared to that i'd rather do work. It's the world as we know it today that can be blamed for the poor attitudes and drive in it's young people, you can't give your child a phone with access to the internet, Facebook, all their other phone owning friends and twitter and expect them to sit with it idle on the table doing their homework. Of course they are going to watch a video on Youtube of some knit-wit skateboarding down some steep stairs and ripping their nut sack open, that's just bloody human nature.
I suppose all in all it comes down to how much you want stuff and how immediate the result of your hard work is, i think we find it hard to comprehend how actions we execute now will affect us in 3 years, especially when we see others around us putting in no work and getting everything we are expected to work for. You know the guy i mean, the one who waltzes into the final exam having attended none of the classes, done none of the revision and waltzes right on out again with above 90% and a ticket to Cambridge university. Seriously how annoying is that guy?!?!?!?
There comes a time when we must all grow up and realise nothing in this world comes free, even if it doesn't require money, effort will be the preferred payment. Being a young person today has so many more distractions than it has ever had before, but we need to all knuckle down and start looking to the future. I mean after all the fuss made by people that think they can run the country better than Maggie Thatcher, you would think that they would fear the future of politics even more. Honestly, who wants a PM that's going to blow off meetings with Korea to play Call of Duty?
What do you think about drive today? Is it the most important key to success or is there another ingredient to the recipe?
Atargatis, over and out xxx
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