I'm not supporting Matthew Inman, I'm only sharing information.

Motivation is only one, perhaps the first component. Discipline and consistency are the subsequent needs.

Well, now I'm even more on Tesla's side. Seeing how Edison wronged Tesla and yet Tesla was generous enough to not bad-mouth him in his autobiography (which I'm yet to confirm, I'll give it a read) goes to show what kind of a man Tesla truly was. Yet Edison wronged him.

Finally, someone gets it!

This is about creating something. Think Shark Tank. Create a solution for a problem people have and boom, cash in!

Also kidney stones.

What an absolutely bleak narrative.

Also, an either/or argument is typical of a false dichotomy, a logical fallacy.

Or sometimes pain of acceptance

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How is discipline or regret pain? Does it mean hard to deal with = pain?

As an example, you're a couchslob that wants to run a 5k funrun in a few months. Sure, perfectly reasonable. What's going to get your fat slobass off the couch? You can start training tomorrow, enjoy your last day of freedom! Tomorrow, eww, it's too sunny outside. I don't want to get sweaty and sunburned. I'll stay inside and clean the house! See, still productive.

You can come up with all sorts of excuses to do anything other than move closer to your goal. Motivation is a two-part idea that first gets your aforementioned slobass off the couch and then secondly keeps you walking, jogging, running, ... When it's hot outside, when your knees hurt, when the kitchen is a little dirty and would make a great excuse to skip exercise.

After a while of meeting your small step goals of walking for a mile a day and then jogging for a day, you do eventually build up to that long-term strongly built habit, but it takes time, devotion, and motivation.

You could also have the pain of just not having any luck. 🤷🏽‍♀️🥴

WOAH!!!, deep !! To the conscious & sub conscious..

ah yes - simpler times when we were kids and everything was magical.

Choose no pain

I choose regret for personal reason

Lots of comments are missing the point.

"Helping" doesn't mean giving away time and things for free to others. It means coming up with an idea, product, etc that lots of people want. Or starting a business with lots of customers, etc.

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Lol I wish

In case yall don't know, zig ziglar is an author of sales instruction books. So the context is that you can be rich if you are good at sales, and one way to be good at sales is to frame conversations with prospects around solving their business or personal needs.

I don't believe anybody is truly lazy (in the case of "lazy" being negatively associated). I think people just have yet to find the right motivation for them or are exhausted and need a break to rest, but don't recognize it and see it as being lazy.

Seems like something a pimp would say lol

Actually, everyone will experience both at different times, and about different things. It's inevitable.

Stop giving the credit to this guy … not the original writer

Bitch I got allot more than two lol

I also used to be Mormon /s

But seriously, I relate to this