Nice. I think one of the largest challenges I see people facing when it comes to motivation is that they don’t have access to the ability to manipulate their motivation, in part because they don’t have (or have but don’t believe in) models that suggest ways in which motivation can be manipulated. This doesn’t mean having those models will make working with motivation easy, but it does at least make it possible so that you don’t flail around going “I have no idea why I’m doing what I’m doing” (and not because you deeply “don’t know”, but because you just can’t even look to see enough of what’s going on to really “not know” in any meaningful way other than simple unawareness).
I’d say the deep insight here is seeing that both what you do and what makes you do what you do is not part of the self, and in being not part of the self (i.e. not a thing you’re identified with) you are unattached to it and free to work with it as needed. Easier said than done, though, as always.
Nice. I think one of the largest challenges I see people facing when it comes to motivation is that they don’t have access to the ability to manipulate their motivation, in part because they don’t have (or have but don’t believe in) models that suggest ways in which motivation can be manipulated. This doesn’t mean having those models will make working with motivation easy, but it does at least make it possible so that you don’t flail around going “I have no idea why I’m doing what I’m doing” (and not because you deeply “don’t know”, but because you just can’t even look to see enough of what’s going on to really “not know” in any meaningful way other than simple unawareness).
I’d say the deep insight here is seeing that both what you do and what makes you do what you do is not part of the self, and in being not part of the self (i.e. not a thing you’re identified with) you are unattached to it and free to work with it as needed. Easier said than done, though, as always.