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If motivation were a battery you wouldn't try to recharge it and use it at the same time. It might get you a little more uptime but the stress leads to early failure.
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If you need external inspiration to do something that's usually a bad sign. If you need it to start a business that's a recipe for disaster. I tend to agree with Elon Musk, he said: "If you need inspiring words, don't do it." [0] [0] https://www.facebook.com/drivelinebaseball/videos/if-you-nee...
Couldn't disagree more and this is exactly why I worded the text very carefully in the way that I did. It's true that you need to be a certain level of self-driven to achieve a goal or project, and that a good portion of the motivation for it should come internally, but human beings are not the machines that we program and it doesn't benefit us to pretend that we are. Long hours of working on the same overwhelming th…
You need to be shaped by those events like a statue.
That's why those events need to be powerful, significant and life changing not mere theatrical plays.
In the space race era, two Italian brothers mount a big antenna in their house with a RF transceiver to communicate with those in the outer space.
They not only talked with some astronauts, but also keep a really good register of what they done, even some controversial things like a Russian person who died in a mission that no newspaper informed about in that time.
Sales: Boiler Room, Glengary Glen Ross Inspiration: Free Solo (watching someone with singular focus that achieves excellence, it's absolutely incredible) Tech: meh, not sure much does it here. Tons of entertaining stuff, but not sure what else. Sorkin is good I guess: Steve Jobs and The Social Network.
Tomorrowland
Big Hero 6
Robots (2005)
The Martian
Sneakers
Real Genius
Wargames
Macguyver (80s show)
Cosmos
October Sky
Iron Man
The Astronaut Farmer
Flight of the Phoenix
Something Ventured
Now if I can only figure out how to get a team behind me like in those movies... :)
I enjoyed 'The Bit Player' about Claude Shannon. Also the mini series Devs.
Connections - James Burke
The Origins of Precision - Machine Thought - Youtube
MacGyver - 1980s TV show
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Couldn't disagree more and this is exactly why I worded the text very carefully in the way that I did. It's true that you need to be a certain level of self-driven to achieve a goal or project, and that a good portion of the motivation for it should come internally, but human beings are not the machines that we program and it doesn't benefit us to pretend that we are. Long hours of working on the same overwhelming th…
Of course we're influenced by the world around us, but I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you can't look for inspiration. It kind of has to come to you. This is why movies are probably a bad source. As a commenter below mentioned Apollo 11 was a very inspirational achievement to lots of people, it was an incredible event that changed people's lives specially impressionable children. You need to be shaped by…
You need to be shaped by those events like a statue.
those events need to be powerful, significant and life changing
Sounds like you're making a lot of speculation on what you/Elon Musk think humans should be instead of what they actually are.
It's shifting the goalposts compared to your points earlier, which was that human beings could not rely on external motivation.
More importantly, without being accompanied by citations of some sort, your claims about what should be are basically religious/superstitious, and therefore meaningless to anyone else but you.
Mr. Robot Who am I (a movie, which is released a bit earlier than Mr. Robot but eerily similar)
Leaving aside all the technical correctness especially on Mr. Robot, they both inspired me a lot.
Interstellar. Halt and Catch Fire.