Thank you for your video. I often look to philosophy for answers to my biggest challenges. Motivation combines the words motive and action, where motive means 'to move' and 'to feel emotions.' What drives you? What makes you feel joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, trust, love, guilt, surprise, or anticipation? All these emotions stem from our experiences and knowledge, essentially, from our conditioning. Therefore, actions based on motivation are limited and lead to contradictions because they come from our fragmented knowledge and experiences stored in memory by thought. For instance, wanting to get in shape just to attract someone is a limited motive that creates internal conflict. The real question is: Can we act without the influence of our conditioning? Feeling emotions is natural-it’s what makes us human! But living through them creates conflict. Thinking is not the same as truly living.
Wow, I love this way of thinking! Etymology is such a great tool for understanding more abstract concepts. Thank you for sharing this perspective and for taking the time to watch the video!
Great video. One thing about discipline is it helps with discernment while progressing. Discipline has made me more intentional on my rest days and doing exercises that are beneficial for recovery. Relying on motivation strictly can create that fleeting emotion of shame when you are not living up to your expectations. This ultimately leads to a lack of progress due to overtraining a muscle group and injury. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this
Thank you, and thanks for sharing your thoughts as well! Completely agree about that feeling of shame, it's definitely something I've experienced over the years. And I'm glad you brought up that intentionality-being mindful of rest and recovery is such an important part of sustainable progress! Appreciate you engaging with the video!
@@themerlinaazul you’re very welcome Merlina 😊! Found your channel today and watched a few of your other videos as well. Great content. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts. The world needs to hear more information just like this. We got a lot of misinformation out here. We need more of the facts you are delivering. You have my support. 💯💯
@@enigmatowles so grateful that you found my content! This is exactly why I do it, to teach and also to connect with like-minded people. I checked out some of your content as well and I’m really enjoying it! Very happy to connect ☺️
@@themerlinaazul thanks. I am humbled. I appreciate you checking out my content as well. Glad to hear you enjoyed it as well. Just cause I’m curious, which ones did you watch? I agree. It’s so refreshing to find like-minded people. Happy to connect as well 😊
@@enigmatowles I checked out some of your freestyle videos and also liked your latest album!! And I followed on TikTok after watching that Bruno Bars post 🔥🔥
Thank you for your video. I often look to philosophy for answers to my biggest challenges. Motivation combines the words motive and action, where motive means 'to move' and 'to feel emotions.' What drives you? What makes you feel joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, trust, love, guilt, surprise, or anticipation? All these emotions stem from our experiences and knowledge, essentially, from our conditioning. Therefore, actions based on motivation are limited and lead to contradictions because they come from our fragmented knowledge and experiences stored in memory by thought. For instance, wanting to get in shape just to attract someone is a limited motive that creates internal conflict. The real question is: Can we act without the influence of our conditioning? Feeling emotions is natural-it’s what makes us human! But living through them creates conflict. Thinking is not the same as truly living.
Wow, I love this way of thinking! Etymology is such a great tool for understanding more abstract concepts. Thank you for sharing this perspective and for taking the time to watch the video!
Great video. One thing about discipline is it helps with discernment while progressing. Discipline has made me more intentional on my rest days and doing exercises that are beneficial for recovery.
Relying on motivation strictly can create that fleeting emotion of shame when you are not living up to your expectations. This ultimately leads to a lack of progress due to overtraining a muscle group and injury.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this
Thank you, and thanks for sharing your thoughts as well!
Completely agree about that feeling of shame, it's definitely something I've experienced over the years. And I'm glad you brought up that intentionality-being mindful of rest and recovery is such an important part of sustainable progress!
Appreciate you engaging with the video!
@@themerlinaazul you’re very welcome Merlina 😊! Found your channel today and watched a few of your other videos as well. Great content. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts. The world needs to hear more information just like this. We got a lot of misinformation out here. We need more of the facts you are delivering.
You have my support. 💯💯
@@enigmatowles so grateful that you found my content! This is exactly why I do it, to teach and also to connect with like-minded people. I checked out some of your content as well and I’m really enjoying it! Very happy to connect ☺️
@@themerlinaazul thanks. I am humbled. I appreciate you checking out my content as well. Glad to hear you enjoyed it as well. Just cause I’m curious, which ones did you watch?
I agree. It’s so refreshing to find like-minded people. Happy to connect as well 😊
@@enigmatowles I checked out some of your freestyle videos and also liked your latest album!! And I followed on TikTok after watching that Bruno Bars post 🔥🔥
Good video
Thank you! Glad it resonated with you
@@themerlinaazul for sure, it was a powerfull message. Keep moving forward. Consistency is king
@@ManuelGonçalves-f2d 100%!! Thanks again!