Is motivation just the answer for happiness, or just, everything other than health? Or I will rephrase it: are we, humans, biologically limited by our own mind? Is the mind of Alex different from Steve?
Original thought might be an exception to that - sometimes I just get ideas randomly, or thoughts take random paths. Those are not motivation-based, but action on those is underpinned by motivation of some sort or the other. Admiring the beauty in the world is also not driven by motivation - the ability to recognize and appreciate that beauty is independent of motivation. Recognizing injustice - also not driven by motivation.
It seems, to me at least, that a world without original thought, beauty or justice would be an unhappy one.
Ergo, motivation is the answer for many things, but perhaps not everything. Maybe not even happiness.
> are we, humans, biologically limited by our own mind?
Indubitably. Teams do better than individuals at pretty much anything, even when physicality is not involved. Can you imagine an intelligence with greater capacity than human minds, and what it might be able to achieve? Look around us - civilization, society is proof that a superior intelligence (combined intelligence, in our case) can achieve more.
There is motivation to find beauty, otherwise we would never find beauty unless we wanted to. Why? Because beauty is something a human is searching for, something that he wants to see. Otherwise, beauty could never be found because there is no search for it. Same thing for recognizing justice, we want justice in this world, and we want to see justice happen.
> Indubitably. Teams do better than individuals at pretty much anything, even when physicality is not involved.
So if we are limited, can't we break that limit if we own our own?
> Can you imagine an intelligence with greater capacity than human minds, and what it might be able to achieve?
Although I believe this method requires people with the same set of mind. ARM CPU can't talk with an x86 CPU, same as Alex can't talk with Steve if they're not built on the same architecture.
You are also limited by Objective Reality, or “ultimate Truth” though you can get by pretty well with an average error rate as long as you have civilization smoothing out the survival interface.
Are you looking for meaning? Don’t be a waste.
Prosperity? Good living is a form of prosperity. Live well.
Looking for higher purpose? Something more than your idle monotonous potential of being? Awaken.
A challenge? There are many.
The difficulty is not in finding truths, the difficulty lies in undeceiving the self.
Look for worthy purpose, undeceive yourself, live well, don’t be a waste.
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