I actually enjoy this process of investing in uncertainty a lot more than what I was doing previously while playing it relatively safe.
Here is the true motivating factor. So many people work their entire lives doing things they hate in order to make money that will buy them material junk that supposedly will balm those wounds and fill that emptiness. That's the big lie. If you aren't enjoying what you are doing you are wasting your precious life.
Who defines success? Are you content to let other's define your success? Is having a Lambo being successful or is finding a way to live and not need a car at all success? Is having a big house with central heating and air condidtioning, a dish washer and a garbage compactor being successful when the very nature of that lifestyle fosters resource wars, impoverishes other people and destroys the environment on which everyone depends.
Sometimes I look at street people and think they are the most successful of us all. They use very little and what they do use is recycled. They live day by day without the perpetual enslavement of employment. They pay no taxes to governments that oppress. They aren't servicing debt and enriching the financial criminals and they are free to move about to wander in the open countryside or shelter in the city.
We must be able to look beyond our cultural programming and ignore those around us who lack the will or the capacity to open their minds to throw off accepted norms. Only then will we be free to chose how to live our lives and become truly successful.
So much of it is driven by competition in the self. Self worth comes from being able to perceive oneself as better than another which very soon gets extended to what one has. I am better because I have...
There must be a 'happy middle ground' somewhere which I think lays in the lack of identification with the material goods. Which would mean there is no need to have anything unless actually useful. perhaps through there would be enough to distribute rather than a relatively small minority hoard the majority.
Why would we spend time collecting what we don't need?
Learning to recognize the difference between want and need is probably the biggest problem people face. Some folks never get it. The more domesticated you are as a human, the more you think you need. I've lived without running water, indoor plumbing, refrigeration and electricity for the last few years. When I can use those facilities--something like endless streams of hot water running from a tap--I recognize what luxuries they really are. I've found I don't really need them and as such my want for them has subsided quite a bit. The simpler the life, the better and more satisfying it becomes. Most would never agree, nor even try it.
Estoy de acuerdo contigo @citizenzero y como se hace cuando das todo pero tu bello pais esta pasando por una situación económica difícil y de verdad que no lo quieri dejar aqui ewta rodo lo que me hace feliz, saludos desde Venezuela
Gracias por tu comentario. Los problemas de Estados Unidos son notables en comparación con los suyos en Venezuela y creo que sus problemas son en su mayoría causados por el imperio estadounidense y su búsqueda del dominio mundial. El mundo entero está sumido en la confusión y, mientras las personas sientan que deben tener más de lo que realmente necesitan, nunca se calmarán.
Sabes que tienes toda la razón no habia pensado en eso que triste que somos borregos y siempre estado ciegos de mentiras manipuladas