Re: Motivation and achievement
Philip Witham (p.j.witham@ieee.org)
Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:13:17 -0800
Alexander wrote:
>I have been thinking about people's motivations lately.
...
>There are some obvious drives. Self-respect, power, money,
>recognition. They can't drive one too far though, it seems.
...
>There are some drives that may seem non-perversely endless.
...(follows various reasons why even these can loose their shine)
A friend of mine, said (paraphrasing):
"It has been the greatest gift to my life that I have nothing left to prove."
I'm still chewing on the implications of this statement. Give me a few more
years.
He just follows the whim of his heart. It usually causes him to build some
new
experiment in his lab. He doesn't publish except to get more people into
science.
- PW