Ann_Venik

I am new to this forum, so I'm not sure if Schopenhauer's "You can do as you will, but you cannot will as you will" has been brought up already. I think it is possible to be in a constant state of motivation if you are always following your will, but if you force yourself to perform work for the sake of duty, you will ultimately burn out and need to recharge your batteries. I see people like Tesla and I think, he truely loved what he did, the process of it. He was passionate about it. It made him feel powerful to discover. I recently quit a high paying job I hated to pursue building my own company. It was my 25th birthday present to myself. I sleep a lot less now, exercise more often, am twice as efficient with my time, and rarely feel the need to "get away from it all". My new career path requires a lot of both artistic and logical creativity, from mechanical construction to creative writing. I find that I change moods more throughout the day as well. Sometimes I am in a creative writing mood, sometimes I am in a good business strategy mood, sometimes I want to tinker with new equipment. I find that if I allow myself to follow these moods, given that there is appropriate time available, I will accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. So I say, it would be possible to have constant motivation if you could always follow your will, but the challenge is aligning your will with your goals, or vice versa. Right now, for instance, they are not so aligned. Or are they? I could say that talking on this forum is a waste of time I could be spending sleeping or being productive, although if I force myself to be "productive", I would become increasingly distracted by an urge to reach out into the ether to make contact with others to talk philosophy. Perhaps it is like chicken soup for the soul. It renews my motivation to see others so ambitious. Perhaps it's the sense of competition.