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Originally Posted by JinnKai
For those of you with intrinsic motivation, what do you see as a realistic rationale for achieving excellence over settling for "okay" for the rest of your life? At the moment, I see no benefit of the former.
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For me it's knowing that I've put 100% into whatever it is that I've done or am doing. Anything else is like feeling it's a half-hearted attempt.
Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet, that to work with love is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit... for if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half a mans hunger.
It is something that gives my life meaning and depth. So I think it's a personal perspective and choice. For me, it is a choice to truely give of myself, for without my heart I cannot see another purpose for life or for living.
Not sure if that's actually a "realistic rationale" for another though... *shrugs*