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Excerpts from the article: Motivation is slavery
What brings us to Motivation?
• Firstly
We must believe that we can motivate someone.
• Secondly
For a real and permanent effect to take place that motivation should turn into habit.
Two intrinsic beliefs…
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Motivation is slavery
What Is Motivation?
All motivation is EXTERNAL.
That is, something is acting upon you and making you react in a certain
way.
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What Does Motivation Mean?
An external
force.
An external stimulus.
An externalagency.
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External Agency
If motivation can come from outside, motivation will disappear when that
outside disappears.
Example: You read a book, and get motivated, the book is
external.
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All these externals come and go, motivation also comes and
goes. Not only that, one external factor comes and
motivates you in one direction, and other factor comes and
motivates in another direction.
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A Great DistractionAll the externals are pulling you towards
themselves, pulling you in directions that they determine. Now that is no way of living. That is
no way of living a conscious life.
THIS IS A GREAT DISTRACTION.
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Life Remains
Confused
Insipid
Directionless
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Why A Slave?Pulled in different directions by different
motivators, these external agencies that act
upon your life and you remain a slave.
So if one element of motivation is slavery,
what will you say about making a
HABIT OF BEING MOTIVATED
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What Is A Habit?
Anything that you do as per the routine, anything for which you don’t have to think, which just
happens in a pre-programmed way…
IS HABIT
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Does Habit Require Intelligence?
‘NO’
I SAY
There is no intelligence required in that and
you want to be habitually motivated.
‘I am habituated to something’
It happens on its own, very mechanically.
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Real Actions Does Not Come
From Motivation.
An energetic, youthful action does not come from motivation.
It does not depend upon EXTERNALAGENGY.
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The external agency can at best take you back to yourself, it cannot motivate you.
And there is the light of your ownunderstanding you decide upon the action, even
the word ‘DECISION’ is not accurate, action just happens.
In your intelligence action takes place.
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Where does real action comes from?
It comes from understandingand intelligence.
Has spontaneity to it.
Has inwardness to it
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Moment-To-Moment
Moment-to-momentLIFE IS
HABIT IS
You respond intelligently to each moment.NO HABIT IS A GOOD HABIT.
• Roll over• A carry over from
the past
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A False One
The difference between GOODHABIT and BAD HABIT IS
FALSE ONE.
DO NOT LOOK FOR HABIT,
LOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE.
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What does HABIT mean?
I am not fully
conscious.
I am not deciding.
I am acting in a pre-
programmed way.
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