Your compelling why

# Chapter 239

Purpose drives motivation. - Masterminds

Here we continue the cult of why. Your why, simply makes all the difference. In fact, if you don’t have a clear purpose, a solid why for what you think you aim to do, then motivation is going to be a problem. Motivational challenges lead to all kinds of sad outcomes. Think about high school. Clearly most kids going to high school have a motivational challenge. They can’t see the purpose for most of what they are required to study. There are hazy tenuous lines between American History class and getting a job or finding a career or talking to the girl you want to ask out. There is no clear cut correlation, no motivation to dig in deep into American History nor any other kind of history. In fact one of the strange things I remember from high school is the disdain that we had for anything that did not have immediacy about it. In our small small world of high school understanding, if we couldn’t see the immediate benefit of study a subject, then it was essentially dismissed as irrelevant to our lives. Thankfully I grew out of that, primarily by obtaining a better set of friends, but that is a post for another day.

But I think this high school understanding of immediacy still drives far too much of our culture here in the USA. Those that stand out, those who succeed large, those who become far more than their high school version of themselves, develop a compelling why, they have purpose that provides fuel to meet all the hardships of life, they find motivation easily because of this purpose, this why. Know your why.