Hello. I would like to know what motivates you.

edited February 2007 in General
Hello. I would like to know what motivates you. I would like to know the reason why you strive towards your ultimate goal. You can express this motivation verbally if you follow these steps:

1)Figure out what is your ultimate goal is. This is the thing that you are currently striving for; the light at the end of the tunnel; your currently perceived raison d'etre.

2)Now, tell me WHY you want to do this. Usually it is a simple raw emotion or physiological drive such as love, hate, fear, etc.

3)Make sure to expand on the reason why. "Love," may be the core of it, but WHAT do you love? WHY do you hate? WHO do you fear?
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  • edited January 2007
    I'll take a stab at this.

    My most ultimate goal is to write all of my books and get them published with a modicum of popularity (enough to live off the royalties would be cool, although I'm not expecting that much).

    The why is more difficult to put into words. Creativity is the purpose of life, and the stories satisfy a need for personal fulfillment. They come on their own, and I take them and shape them into something more interesting and more coherent than their raw form.
  • edited January 2007
    1)To host a succesful comic and/or webcomic and making a living out of being a cartoonist.

    2)I love to draw, and it really is a lot of fun. To make a living out of something that I liked to do anyway would be amazing.

    What motivates me? GORGEUOS WOMEN.
  • edited January 2007
    I'm at a point in my life where I don't know what I want, why I want it, or truly, even what motivates me.

    I used to write because I thought I needed to, and the daily deviations thing came up, that's a good reason, I wrote to keep my brain fresh and keep in practice, working my writing skills like any other muscle.

    But exercise is hard to keep up without a nurturing environment of people that enjoy to do the same thing. My friends around here don't write all that much, come to think of it, they don't exercise all that much either.

    In the short term, unrelated to my grandiose dreams which seem so undefined right now, I suppose I can answer:

    I want to see my girlfriend more. That's the long and short of it, so I have a crappy job making money instead of going to school this semester so I can visit her more often.
  • edited January 2007
    Be an important movie director, because I love making/watching movies. Its my "passion," if you will.
  • edited January 2007
    Jeff, what you have said is very real, very painful, very LIFE. I love you.
  • edited January 2007
    It may be a bit cheesy, but my biggest goal in life is to simply improve the world in whatever way I can. The uncertainty of life keeps me from setting big goals that'd take years to accomplish, but if things keep going like they are now, I'll probably get job in pharmeceuticals or a similar research position.

    But if I can even just cheer someone up when they're sad, or be there for a friend when they need me, that'd be enough. If, after my death, my friends are thankful that I lived, or if I influenced their lives for the better somehow, then I'll have accomplished what I wanted.

    But what about you John?! How selfish of you to expect everyone else to answer your question, but provide no answer yourself!
  • edited January 2007
    How selfish of YOU to probably get a job in pharmaceuticals where you'll create the zombie virus. I've read World War Z. Your kind are SCUM.
  • edited January 2007
    My ultimate goal is to achieve fluency in Japanese and Chinese. I have near fluency and literacy in Japanese, and I believe Chinese will be much easier with a Japanese background. I've only recently begun Chinese, so it will still take many years to get good at it.

    I do it for the thrill of it. Learning about cultures and peoples radically different from our own is one of the most exciting things I can do with life. It opens your mind and teaches you more about yourself, your values, and your culture's values.

    I love experiencing what life has to offer. There's a huge world out there, and it's a shame that we only have 80 years or so to make the most of it.
  • edited January 2007
    Wenches and Grog are the only things that keep me going.

    Yarrr...
  • edited January 2007
    1) I want to have fun.

    2) According to Scott McCloud, art.

    3)
    Scott wrote:
    Art, as I see it, is any activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction!
  • edited January 2007
    Agentcel wrote: »
    What motivates me? GORGEUOS WOMEN.
    hell yeah gorgeous women!
  • edited January 2007
    WOO GORGEOUS WOMEN
  • edited January 2007
    According to Scott McCloud, sex with birth control is art, as is gay sex, and binge drinking.

    Way to go, Scott.


    Woo, asexuality!
  • edited January 2007
    My ULTIMATE GOAL! is to learn about this thing you people call "love."

    My motivation is my fear of self-destruction.
    The self destruction I'll face if I fail in my mission.
  • edited January 2007
    1)My ultimate goal is to become financially independent and to taste the world. That is, to travel to a lot of fun places. (And possibly lick them)

    2)I want to do these because it excites me to try new things and to simply see what different places feel like. Call it a desire for adventure. (I forgot to mention that I mean to travel backpacker-style.)
  • edited January 2007
    Now, instead of your ultimate goal, what is your immediate goal?

    For example. I am thirsty, so my goal is to go get a drink.

    BRB.
  • edited January 2007
    Get my homework done!
  • edited January 2007
    My immediate goal is to sit down and start on the next Zelda Comic.

    Doing!
  • edited January 2007
    "Doing"?
  • edited January 2007
    Immediate goal? Relax, because I've just finished the work that I decided not to put off till Sunday. That way, I'll have time to do the ACTUAL Sunday work on Sunday, so Monday's free for whatever Sunday work doesn't get finished.

    Also, I might redraw that colored pencil thing from a different perspective so it might hopefully be less out of wack, size-wise.
  • edited January 2007
    Decide which game to play! Psychonauts? Final Fantasy XII? Rayman: Raving Rabbids? Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door? Decisions decisions..
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    edited January 2007
    Go to bed so I can wake up before seven and go get me a Wii.
  • edited January 2007
    Psychonauts!

    My immediate goals are to take a shower, then maybe get something to drink. I'll have to see how the shower goes.
  • edited January 2007
    Slick wrote: »
    "Doing"?

    "Do-ing! What are you do-ing?"

    "Oh, well you spelled it the same."
  • edited January 2007
    Gym? What the heck's a gym?
  • edited January 2007
    mario wrote: »
    "Do-ing! What are you do-ing?"

    "Oh, well you spelled it the same."

    Touche. I didn't even think of that.
  • edited January 2007
    To figure out how the fuck channels work with AdSense.
  • edited January 2007
    I have no long term goals. Well, that's not true. I do have 1 long term goal. It's to not die. Not until I'm old enough. In the short term, I desire plan out my flash webpage for my class. I have a couple ideas that I really like. It'll be a lot of work though.

    I could probably write a lengthy essay about what motivates me, but it would really come down to "nothing".
  • edited January 2007
    Well why are you in college right now if you don't have a goal in mind?

    ALSO:
    Current desire: to fold clothes and iron uniform
    Motivator: fear of reprimand and contempt for wrinkles
  • edited January 2007