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What inspires you?
One person is active, engaged, inspired and ready to take on life’s challenges. The other person lives a routine life where today was the same 50 years ago.
What makes someone motivated, ready to learn, inspired and ready to inspire other people.
What makes someone not motivated, uninterested and live day to day?
What makes you wake up everyday? Why do some people live meaningless lives that they do not enjoy? What makes you be active and engaged ?
Here at TED people are active and inspired and we sometimes forget those who aren’t.
How do we activate the deactivated?
Zdenek Smith 100+
- other people like Elon Musk and Larry Page
- feeling great when helping others
- possibilities that technology especially the Internet brings to us and what I can do with it
- family and friends
greg dahlen 30+
I'm pretty motivated, I think stubborness might be important. Not being willing to settle, wanting quality of life. Some people might feel daunted by the opposing forces, in other words if you're going to ask an original question, you're going to have to be awfully smart to deal with all the questions that are going to come back to you. Maybe some people just don't want that rejection, or don't know how to cope with it. I guess I can handle rejection, a lot of people have difficulty with it.
Edwin Nazarian 10+
george lockwood 30+
W. Ying 10+
Making A-STEP-BETTER for keeping our DNA alive impairs us.
The deactivated can be activated by making them believe they can make the A-STEP-BETTER.
It is easy because the A-STEP-BETTER is almost independent of its size.
(For details, see 1st article, points 1-3 at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)
Kate Blake 50+
If people are not inspired and active they really need to look at the underlying causes and address those issues if they want to change. Some people are very comfortable, complacent and quite enjoy that every day is the same. Often there can be underlying mental health issues also, so we can't judge them nor propel them into action if they are happy with their lot.