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Originally Posted by vMike  What was the source of his motivation? How does one develop a "drive" like that? |
For me the "drive" is a sense of right. What I am doing is right for me, nothing else would be right for me, I would not enjoy it, I would not prosper.
I could go back to Australia tomorrow and fall into a comfortable IT job with good pay, good benefits and paid! annual leave. But I am happier here, in my $100 a month Asian style room, not apartment, room, living off my meagre Adsense earnings between jobs.
I cannot afford to go out and eat Western food at restaurants with friends, I cannot go out drinking (if I drink I get $2 traditional herbal rum - you Americans call it Moonshine). I am struggling financialy but I know hte next movie I do will make me more than my mates in Australia who tell me to give up these fancy dreams and get a real job.
(Yeah, I don't talk to them anymore at all).
So in a way it is arrogance. I am right, they are all wrong, and I am going to bloody well do this.
On top of this I have always had an easy life, I have always designed it that way, and working in a job or going back to start another business - - - I'd end up a drug addict or dead or in jail.
I don't fit into the standard social mold, I refuse.
All the bulldust pushed down people's throats makes me sick. The news is propaganda, the big companies pay politicians to do their bidding.
Marijuana is illegal but ritalin is forced onto kids. No money in pot, it grows like a weed, there's lots of money in designer amphetamines, and it hooks the users, sorry patients.
The crap they do to the food supply is outrageous, hormones, cancer causing chemicals, industrial waste remarketed as healthy and good for you.
I absuloutely refuse to be a part of all those lies. Which is why I live in Asia, here corruption is out in the open, well everyone knows but everyone pretends it does not happen.
One politician ran for Mayor in a MAJOR city (10 million+) on the strength of the slogan "You know I'm corrupt, but at least I am honest about it" - that I can deal with.
The drive to be me is just that. I want a career that provides lots of free time, and lots of money, lots of girls (still looking for the right one) and anything else I want, when I want it, where ever I want it.
Being a movie star would give me that, working in a job won't ever give me that. There are other careers that could give me that but I went through the list when I sat down to decide what to do with my life and crossed many of htem off, the top thing on the list of what I would like to be/do was movie star so I went for it.
I know many people on here don't lie my approach to life, they are soft and namby pamby, delusional thinking that the universe will provide if I just sit on my butt and think about it a little more.
It doesn't work like that, you need to action your ideas and dreams and things come to you. Big opportunities come every day but YOU need to be ready and able to see it as an opportunity and be prepared enough to take it and make it part of your dream/goal/life.
I heard an Amway speaker once say "It's not you waiting on God, it's God waiting on you - you can do it - you can do it - you can do it!"
I refuse to see failure. Sir Richard Branson says failure is giving up and nothing else, I agree.
Each time I 'fail' I learn something, I get better, I am slowly making it to the top of the world in a very difficult career by learning it all myself and making my own path. Sure there may be teachers who could help and beaten paths to take but in the end I want to accomplish, I want to achieve.
Then I feel good about myself. I was right all along, I can rub peoples noses in their negativity and how wrong they were not to belive in me.
Many people think I am dumb because I have a great body and am HUGE, one of hte biggest men in the world in fact. This aggravates me to no end, as people like this are always dumb, and put themselves above me.
I don't put myself above anyone, unless they need to learn a lesson due to their ill manners in which case I will put them right in their place, and certainly not someone I have only jsut met.
I have 140+ IQ and am a member of MENSA, I joined to show people to treat me with a little more respect than I was getting. In India that membership was really appreciated and I was looked at in a very good light.
Seems that the answer has been a bit of a ramble but in the end that is the answer.
I have seen friends "use the power of positive thinking" to become rich and famous, and not get off their butt, even when opportunity was knocking it was too much effort for them to answer the door and have a go.
I have seen some friends rise up to mediocre success and then give up, thinking it was too hard to go the rest of hte way.
I don't want to be like them. Shattered men, their dreams broken, in moments of solemness or drunkeness they will admit they feel like failures. Really they are not the same men I knew when they were still trying, full of life and spirit.
That is a fate worse than death.
OK my life is not stable, definitely not safe and I go out of my way to put myself in dangerous situations if my morals decree it (I apprehended and armed robber and on another occassion stopped a rape in the last 3 months - it was on the national news even). But my life is fun, no one on this forum has a life like mine.
Armed robbery foiled news video
I remember one time telling a mid level manager a little about my life and her eyes went all cloudy as she imagined it and said "wow, your life is like a dream".
Umm, yes. It is. I talk about things not to brag, I can substantiate everything I say, most is documented step by step with photos or video on my website.
I talk about the playboy bunnies I have dates, the Penthouse Centerfolds, the Millionaire business women, the International dancers, national fitness/sporting champions... the list goes on.... but it is not to brag - I am loking for the right woman, it's nothing to brag about saying I have failed so far to find her - but most men thing women like this are out of reach and never try.
ANYTHING YOU WANT IN LIFE IS AVAILABLE, ANYTHING IS ACHIEVABLE