Motivation and Free Will. Why people do what they do?

Today I’m going to write about motivation and free will.

What makes people do what they do?

Most of us do the things that we do because we make reactions to flow of real time events around us.

Most of our action is reactive. Most people live in passive state of life.

Sometimes we do things or choose what to do only when we feel urges for our needs. We start by our basic needs like food and drink. Then we start to act towards highers need like the need of self achievement.

Other part of the time we spend making reactive actions to life events (kids go to school, feeling sick so we go to the doctor, go to social events we are part of its origin, etc)

But you can notice mainly that people do what they do on a daily basis to avoid pain or to get pleasure. 

And they do so only reacting to extrinsic events. Only achievers and successful people stop to pause their lives and take sometime of their own to make something that they truly want and see that it makes them better.

Successful people use their time as the most valuable asset they have. And they trade any thing to have their times and spend them doing what they value the most.



I don’t mean that those successful people can be all of their time making what they want and value the most, but this is the real measure of your success in life. That’s how you spend your time doing.

The more you spend of your time doing what you really want the more successful you are.

Most people act to life events and are caught up in making living and forgetting to design a long term life.


You can look at little children. Baby human is born with some basic needs. He grows knowing what he or she wants from life according to his knowledge and senses.

By the time he makes choices and feels free to pick up what he wants from that life. But as we grow up, we react to life and even what we thing choosing we only make that choice from only a predefined set of choices.

People condition themselves by doing this reaction until they loose their innate ability to choose. They kill their free will by slowly training their mind to reactively do what life brings to them.

They keep reacting to events until they forget what they must do.


Most of the people I meet in my work and on the street I ask them what they want and what they do as a hobby.

Most of them respond with the same thing. They only go to work and they don’t have time for hobbies. Even their spare times they spend only watching TV or relaxing enjoying doing nothing at all.

Remember to stop to train your brain to choose whatever you really want and value the most.


Train your brain to make choices. Train your free will to pop up on the surface. And train your mind to stick to whatever you choose to do. Keep doing it no matter whatever it takes to get it.


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