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Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by chistev » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 6:17 AM UTC

I don't like my current situation and I'm trying to change it rather than sitting around waiting for lightning to strike.

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by chistev » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 6:18 AM UTC

jatins wrote: post #8

not_your_vase wrote: post #2

Spite. That's my only remaining motivating force. Anything I do is out of spite, just to show them.

who is them?

The people who have been laughing at him his entire life.

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by wakawaka28 » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 6:29 AM UTC

not_your_vase wrote: post #2

Spite. That's my only remaining motivating force. Anything I do is out of spite, just to show them.

One day you'll probably look back on this and regret all the energy you spent being upset at "them." They are living rent-free in your head and in reality probably don't realize that they did you wrong. At least, that's what I tell myself when I reflect on all the jerk behavior I've ever dealt with. It's hard to let go of that crap even when you know it isn't good for you, but you should try.

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by oysterville » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 6:29 AM UTC

Disturbed - "A Reason to Fight"

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by space_oddity » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 7:08 AM UTC

rus20376 wrote: post #19

After a period of extreme burnout I started to explore different meditative techniques and, as part of that exploration, read the Bhagavad-gita. Greatly paraphrashing for the sake of brevity, but the idea that has guided me since then is that we cannot help but take some action or perform some work. At the very least we need to eat, but to eat we need to get some food and cook it. We need to get shelter from the elem…

Even seemingly small efforts can ripple out in ways we might never realize

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by space_oddity » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 7:12 AM UTC

sureglymop wrote: post #16

Curiosity. I can never stop living if I still have curiosity for what the next day brings.

A pure and endless motivator

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by ottaborra » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

Building the future

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by john_the_writer » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:21 AM UTC

I found an interesting youtube vid a while back. It talked about "where I'll be in 3 years." It talked about how you can become more in 3 years.. if you have a plan. I got a new note book and picked a why.. I am going to be a paid writer, a paid independent author. So I took the book and bullet journal up a plan, and work it.

This has been a huge boon. I know what I have to do, and it's tied to a why.

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by john_the_writer » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:25 AM UTC

chistev wrote: post #21

I don't like my current situation and I'm trying to change it rather than sitting around waiting for lightning to strike.

I had the same..

I got myself a bullet journal, and I'm working a plan. It's great to have a way through. Not out, but through.

Re: Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?

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Post by onion2k » Wed, Dec 25, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

I spent 3 years reflecting on this about a decade ago, and concluded that I really like fixing things that aren't working. There's no big or special reason behind what I do, just an understanding that things are broken and I have the skills to make them work. I apply this to human problems in technical teams these days, mostly around trying to persuade them that there is value in websites not being garbage, but anything that moves the needle in the right direction is enough to get me out of bed in the morning.