A pretty radical idea; it looks like a lot of people consider incentives, like you have to incentivize people to do XYZ. But what if this whole line of thinking were wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, in the markets, as a trader investor etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It seems that most people are driven by a profit motive, or a bonus motive or incentive. But what if, your drive was autotelic instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the only investor who is motivated by fun and play? And also the joy of speculation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like I might be light years ahead of everyone else; for myself, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting older and more experience wiser and richer\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Conversely I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also becoming more frugal, scrappy, innovative and creative?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As time goes on, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m becoming more Spartan & frugal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The first thing that I learned is spending money on something to purchase a solution is a bit base. Certainly there is no wrong reason spending money or purchasing things, to fix problems\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But often, the root cause of things are deeper than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So often whenever I want to buy something to solve a problem, I stop pause and take it back to first principles and try to get to myself\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Wait, what is it that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really<\/em> trying to do here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently going through an issue where I already maxed out all my weights, for my one rep max hypelifting. Maybe I need to consider the whole thing\u00e2\u20ac\u201d so from a first principles perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I am trying to do a one rep Max, what is it that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really trying to achieve?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For myself, it is almost like an out of body experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still curious about my limits; being able to supersede my limits, but then again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Why<\/em><\/strong> am I curious what my limits are? is it a curiosity in which the human body can achieve? Naturally? And if so why does this kind of thinking even matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe another one is kind of like I just want to get stronger, become stronger, and as a consequence, to have bigger more impressive muscles. But if I no longer have other people to impress, maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just trying to impress myself?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You look at your body like 99% of the day; assuming that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not living in a campsite, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re constantly surrounded by mirrors and reflections of yourself. As a consequence, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to damn well know what your physique looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the best things about no longer going to a gym is I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been able to detox a little bit from the often superficial gym culture. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m becoming a little bit more honest; for example, exercising for myself, because I care for myself. Not to stunt or flex on others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A pretty radical idea; it looks like a lot of people consider incentives, like you have to incentivize people to do XYZ. But what if this whole line of thinking were wrong? For example,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639860"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639885,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639860\/revisions\/639885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Why impressing yourself is important<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Seeing change over time is joyful!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"