I am a rather self-motivated person. I’ve reached a wide variety of goals without anyone helping to motivate me. I’ve kept an exercise program going for several years, and done other stuff, like distance education. However, I’ve recently come to believe that being self-motivated is all well and good, but doing things like this is quite a bit more difficult than doing things in a team. Joggers do better when they run together, and the second child almost always develops faster than the first because the older child is setting the pace.
Now that I’ve had this brilliant revelation, I just need to figure out how to best apply it. Anyone out there want to change the world, learn Chinese, and write software?
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How would one person change the world?
You are admirably crazy, but you have always been. You do a great job of self-directing your actions and staying on track. Personally, I am having enough trouble helping the world along by changing myself into a more agreeable person. The rest of the world, I know, appreciates any efforts I put forth in that area. Dad
Do you speak spanish?
David... can you say Hitler?
or Jesse Owens? Helen Keller?Joan of arc?
Mark Burnett (but so much in a good way)?
and of course Matthew has changed my world and you certainly change peoples world every day.
I think it's really quite easy to chage the world it just depends on HOW you want to change it.
i found myself buying into this post until the last part. the revelation you had doesn't of necessity lead you to help others learn chinese. it could also help you learn any number of things from someone else. leadership is won by self-motivation and perspective.
i identify with you, though. i'm so comfortable with self-motivation, that i actually won't do a lot of things if someone if helping me. maybe out of spite or pride. maybe because i don't like sharing the glory. but, i figure, if i can do it on my own, why not?
(marriage is the first time in my life that self-motivation is not completely sufficient. i may be perfectly motivated to reach some grand goal all by myself. but, unless the whole family is on board, i won't reach the goal, and i'll drive a wedge between family members. the tricky part is that familys can hold each other back as easily as they can help)
to further demonstrate my discomfort with teamwork, i don't jog well with others.
(and btw, if our second child develops faster than isabella, you'll be reading about it in JAMA or something.)
Hitler by himself would not have accomplished anything. It was all the German Nazi sheeple that helped him out. You could liken it to blaming Osama for all terroism.
I think a better example would be Thomas Edison, Plato, Einstian and Homer Simpson. Joseph smith comes as close as I can think of. I beleive because the Gospel was restored it layed the way for the industrial revolution and the biggining of the modern world. But then again there are people living that have no clue there is a modern world out there. They look at their primitive sharp tools for hunting and making stuff and think that they are very advanced.
Or you could go down the road of, if not for say hitler. Would someone else have done the same thing or similar. If Franklin did not discover electricity or invent the iron stove, would someone else have done it?
I guess the question (can one person change the world?) is philosophical.
Only one person truely changed the world by himself.
Dave, each person changes the world. Unless Back to the Future was wrong...
I guess we should define change the world.
Ready when you are, Matthew.
joe
I want to change the world. Notably, I want to launch the sexual revolution in Lebanon by doing things such as naked biking and the such. That should be interested. And I'm serious :)
Being self motivated is really good. You dont have the problem where you dont do stuff because you're waiting for other people to come along... if you're like this you'll end up not doing very much. On THE OTHER HAND, not being alone is better most of the time because you'd also be having the pleasure of socialising and competition and support will bring better results. It's just more fun and less stress. But you'll be alone in your life and it's good to have that capacity.
and even if the second child developes faster....the second child also has a lot more bruises then the first...and all that thanks to the first child...Karin
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