What motivates us

Humanity is always left to wonder. What is it that drives human personality. How come that we have great and successful artists, managers, poets, scientists. And some not very successful and some outright mediocre. What motivates us to do what we do, to purse success, or to pursue happiness. Is it self interest. We associate motivation with human behaviour,meaning, a state of mind that moves us to action. Why am I pursuing a post graduate degree in Business.

Each day brings with it an endless list of decisions to be made. The process of making those decisions is driven, in large part, by the hope of a benefit or the fear of a consequence. Is that benefit our self interest or a we scare of the consequence of inaction or failure. For example many immigrants, like myself, come to America with a future that is so uncertain, they pick up menial jobs right away because they have to survive today, but they attend community college in the night either because they seen education as a veri...