When you’re expressing a combination of love and self-discipline, what are you doing?

Where would you travel to and who would you meet with to be able to express this?

What makes you train harder and travel further, is likely to come from deep within.

There’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

When people talk about carrots and sticks, theyre usually referring to acting upon others – somehow making others do what they want.  As Mary Poppins would say, “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, the medicine go down, the medicine go down.”

Just as extrinsic motivation can be sometimes a carrot and sometimes a stick, so intrinsic motivation comes in different forms, though.  There’s motivation from within and motivation from deep within.

‘Whoever must play cannot play.’*

The world isn’t a rational and orderly place, but that’s the kind of choices we try and make.

Deep choices allow us to play, but often appear irrational.

Play is how we live life from the core of our being, made possible by human imagination.

‘[I]f we want to develop a sustainable approach to reaching success we must simultaneously acknowledge the world is random while retaining some sort of rationale in our approach.’**

We need a rationale in order to act, but we’re terrible at using a rationale of randomness – yet the universe is random.

‘I just wanted to do it!  It was an internal drive that I couldn’t ignore.’^

Our best guide is found deep within.  It’s what makes us follow the rabbit, begin an adventure, enter the game.

(*From James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games.)
(**From Frans Johansson’s The Click Moment.)
(^From Chris Guillebeau’s The Happiness of Pursuit.  Guillebeau is referring to his desire to visit every country on the planet before he reached 35 years of age; he found other things happened on the way, too.)