If you seek greatness you must have capacity for madness and
be a glutton for punishment - madness, not straight jacket wearing, howling at
the moon madness, rather an insane belief in your abilities and great faith,
albeit vague conviction of your purpose in this reality. In the words of Pheroze
Nowrojee, you must believe that it is enough to believe and that failure to
pursue conviction is in itself failure no matter the odds you face.
This notion sheds light on great struggles and consequent
strugglers. Sometimes why one fights, is explained by what makes one fight.
This could be any one of the numerous physical, emotional and spiritual
motivations which are often personal to the degree of inexplicability.
Interesting then that the lack of purpose presents itself as
the inverse to self-worth and self-esteem; the man without vision rarely perishes
alone for they infect friends and family with crippling lethargy and stand in opposition
to those around them who may display even a nuance of self-drive and
motivation. Unmotivated people stand as a barrier to those seeking purpose in
their lives. This barrier is as tall or short, strong or weak as the number of
persons in a given society who are devoid of purpose.
Motivation must
therefore be crafted as an exercise in the implementation of a collective
conscience and for once I am glad religion beat me to that punch. You see for
any form of ‘good’ to prevail, its proponents must seek to counter any and all
manner of detrimental leanings. Evil and evil doers have enjoyed great success
over the years owing to a reactionary strategy by those opposed to evil as the
counter to evil. Evil doers learned eons ago that when cards are held close to
chest, and their plans strategically revealed to only be glimpsed at, they are
free to play their cards only after moral men have made plain their strategy to
counter the perceived evil, which is in actuality a glimpse of the grand plans;
a ruse and bait.
Therefore if you seek to spur members of a given society to
morality, they must be forced to confront and not evade evil with motivation to
confront evil being the primary weapon. Now then how do you motivate members of
society to confront immorality, I’d say by teaching and from as early an age as
possible, that the lack of purpose is in actuality the mother of all evils.
Purpose then must be crafted to follow talent which is a naturally occurring gift
innate in all humans. If society is designed to celebrate and demand purpose
and the pursuit of amplifying talent by all, then those in opposition of talent
and purpose will be deemed evil doers.
Motivation is therefore as absolute a science as it is spirituality
and I dare say religion (remember the parable of the talents) – it isn’t enough
for those who do not work not to eat, rather those who do not work towards unearthing
and nurturing talent, and those not motivated and not actively engaged in
motivating others should not eat; for these two noble pursuits, talent and purpose
are the very essence of humanity’s raison d'etre in this reality.
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