Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.
People say, "I wish I had more motivation today, because then I would try something." But our thinking is backward. The way our brain works is that dopamine - the so-called feel-good chemical - is released the second we actually do something. So the motivation doesn't come before, it comes after.
We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.
It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.
Motivation comes from effort.
Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?
There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.
When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.
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