Motivation, technology

The wonders of biology are unparallelled. Brainless creatures like tapeworms can navigate mazes with ease, some animals can see past the visible spectrum of light. A frontier of surprise and intrigue, biology is a language formatted with an intelligence beyond even our own (an intelligence so great, its' manifestation cannot comprehend itself.)

What does it have to do with motivation? Well, chemical imbalances can alter many perceptions of the mind. Anything from our man-made catalysts of hallucination and delusion, drugs, to the production rate of serotonin, which can alter your mood drastically, are chemical imbalances that cloud our minds from their stationary functioning positions. Be they beneficial to or detrimental from our overall health and actions, they are a part of our everyday life, and our perpetually changing world and society.

Motivation is directly relative to the topic of a physically stagnant lifestyle. It makes sense that, when one does not physically or mentally work towards and achieve a goal through labour and challenges, they feel as if they have accomplished less, and thus are plagued with the unsatisfactory. This is the reason why many people shudder at the thought of a desk job, where mundane tasks are completed without end.

But wait, you can get satisfaction from any number of activities that do not physically or mentally try you, right?

A human works this way, he feels more inclined to expend effort if he is nudged by the tangible development of his skills. I'm not an expert and cannot verily produce an answer of much worth. But it is a scientific fact that sports, or other extracurricular, outdoors activities increase positive chemical balances. It doesn't have to be a lot, or a little, it can be minuscule, a hobby, any number of things. People are also stimulated by mental activity, an enlightenment to a new subject, the exploration of a familiar one, and even the fabrication of a new one unlock doors and form pathways in the lush community of synapses within our minds.

Life is dulled by the banal activity of schoolwork, from my perspective and perhaps also from those of many of my peers. I crave challenge, search for it, create it for myself when it does not arrive. Again, a recurring wish to learn what I am unfamiliar with emerges from the folds of my conscience. I wish to be stimulated by the unknown, the barely discernable.

Language grants me this gift, the ever shrinking oasis of the yet-understood.

Dear reader, I pose a question, what gives you this gift? What do you wish to learn, or accomplish, or accomplish in learning?