Understanding The Truth Behind Your Motivation

Gaganbir
4 min readDec 13, 2020

What you think you know is usually wrong.

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If I had a penny donated to myself for every idea I generated that I thought was path breaking, I am sure I would have been a millionaire by now.

You see the human brain has no problem in generating ideas; the problem is in navigating the realism that follows. It is the unexplainable chasm that exists between an idea, and it’s implementation; the fuzzy path that betrays the performance of an idea. There is a certain sense of awkwardness associated with every idea that makes it unique. In fact, it is impressive enough not to allow our own existing identity to make tangible sense creating inertia for the first step in any direction.

But, what has it to do with motivation?

It is so simple that it propagated my usual bickering, moody, nonchalant self to get my fingers on the keyboard and start typing away. You see motivation is a capability that inherently develops over time.

Motivation is more intrinsic than what we give it credit. It is much like a muscle that requires consistent flexing and focussed development for it to able to generate value.

It is so intrinsic that it enables formulating the most basic of the character traits that define us. Our pathway to add value to ourselves is determined by the source of our motivation. We all have aspirations to be a better version of ourselves and if we are integrated into the true spirit of humanism than we strive for fulfilling the need of others. Either way, an inherent sense of understanding our source of motivation helps us pave a path.

The understanding of our inner theatre establishes an intrinsic pathway to fathom the source of our motivation.

Our inner theatre is best described as the source of all the drama; The drama and the tussle which is absolutely hidden in an impenetrable vault but has the minute leakages that connects it to our actions. A lot of what we decide to respond to is driven by the sensational drama behind the scenes. Understanding the inner theatre is not a mere feat and requires a deep dive into establishing a sense of our cognitive behaviours, their implications and the cascade effect they produce.

Ideas are always driven by a source of extrinsic or intrinsic desire to bring value to oneself or for the greater good and benefit of others. So long as there is a motive that requires satiation, our fundamental responsibility is to respond to stimuli for the betterment of its proposed action.

We need to understand that our inner theatre holds the key to our ideas and our reaction to stimuli that has access to motivation.

It is a two-way process-driven in nanoseconds. Our cognitive abilities decide an outcome-driven by a complex tune of emotional, rational, logical planes with a confluence of the metaphysical (The ThinkStack©️) all staged in the inner theatre. It is a continual process that churns out outcomes as it faces the mundane and the new experiences to create a chain of events that influence and instigate the inner theatre to form a pattern. The programmed response is not always right and is a reason why we are the way we are.

The two-way process determines the shape of our inner theatre that is an evolving flux of assimilation and response at the most basic level. Therein lies the opportunity to maximise on the reflexive nature of motivation.

We need to understand what are the various triggers that are extrinsically delivered to us that have a deep fore-bearing effect on our emotions. It is of paramount importance as these triggers have a short cut response and are always connected to in parallel to motivation. Think of it as a circuit that is available on tap to utilise and create an impact.

When we are constantly faced by situations that trigger our responses in a pattern, we assimilate them into a cohesive response that is often an idea to prevent and devolve the impact of the triggers. Linking them to a motive ensures that we start building an understanding of the motivational patterns that play in tandem to the pattern of situations. I like to refer to it as balancing.

Motivation is not a single thread. It is a cohesive roped fibre of patterns formed by a situational understanding of making a difference. It makes it open to superior cognitive influence and change. Inspiration is a superior cognitive bearing of change.

The one thing that a pattern offers is the capability to break, create, modify, augment and disrupt. Establishing a pattern of superior cognitive influence allows us to bear force on our inner theatre in an unimaginable subtle way.

As we understand more and more of all the superior cognitive influences, we are in a better position to accommodate patterns of influence that have a direct bearing.

Think of superior cognitive influences as the minutė neurons that connect our ideas to be backed by solid motives allowing them more accessible time to actually create a difference.

Constant refinement of the mesh of superior cognitive influences, ideas and intrinsic motives allows us to create an entwined direction that is long-lasting as it regularly delivers motive value through a satisfying loop.

IWe must understand that our inner theatre is a beautiful yet garish representation of ourselves which offers many jewels such as the ability to understand what has a superior influence on our usual cognitive response. It provides an immense opportunity to create pathways to short circuit our ideas and establish strong motivational reasons behind them.

Next time, you get an idea, remember the pathway to motivation is not far away. It’s almost always around the corner. Sometimes, it only requires a peek.

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Gaganbir

Writer, Poet, Business Leader, Transformation Coach, Culture Flux Designer, Creator , Innoventurer, Curator of Minds. Cognitive Specialist and Life Learner.