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You could find out what motivates you. Look at the SIMA method, or find something similar. And realize this method may not work 100%, but it should give you goo

by rogeryu 11y ago

You could find out what motivates you. Look at the SIMA method, or find something similar. And realize this method may not work 100%, but it should give you good directions. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Uniqueness-The-Arthur-Miller/dp/0310242886 http://www.amazon.com/Power-Uniqueness-The-Arthur-Miller/dp/... Based on the idea that every person is endowed from birth with a unique pattern of competencies and motivations, or giftedness, this book describes your Motivated Abilities Pattern (MAP), which indicates your personal giftedness and encourages you to pursue your unique calling and live a purposeful life that is highly productive and richly satisfying. Formerly titled Why You Can't Be Anything You Want to Be.

dalke 11y ago
That sounds like BS, but I haven't read the book. Was Knuth 'endowed from birth' with the motivation to work in computer science? If so, what happened to all of the similarly endowed people from the 1100? In '20000 Leagues Under the Seas', Ned Land was 'King of the Harpooners', with no equal to his trade. Stubb, from 'Moby Dick' was a gifted whaler. They are of course fictional, but here's a real-life reference, http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40316513?uid=3738984&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21106825288173 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40316513?uid=3738984&u... , quoted through Google as: > Tessuin, a uniquely gifted whaler who was actively sought by competing companies that wanted him to work for them .. The actual book uses the lines "expert harpooner" and "renowned harpooner" to describe Tessuin. What are all those people born in land-locked Oklahoma in the last 50 years, who are endowed from birth with competencies in whale harpooning, supposed to do? Based on the reviews, it appears that Miller believes that some sort of supernatural force is at work to prevent this from happening. If one is willing to believe in supernatural forces that intervene in the natural world, than can't that be used to justify any action in this best of all possible worlds?

by rogeryu 11y ago

dalke 11y ago

That sounds like BS, but I haven't read the book. Was Knuth 'endowed from birth' with the motivation to work in computer science? If so, what happened to all of the similarly endowed people from the 1100? In '20000 Leagues Under the Seas', Ned Land was 'King of the Harpooners', with no equal to his trade. Stubb, from 'Moby Dick' was a gifted whaler. They are of course fictional, but here's a real-life reference, http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40316513?uid=3738984&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21106825288173 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40316513?uid=3738984&u... , quoted through Google as: > Tessuin, a uniquely gifted whaler who was actively sought by competing companies that wanted him to work for them .. The actual book uses the lines "expert harpooner" and "renowned harpooner" to describe Tessuin. What are all those people born in land-locked Oklahoma in the last 50 years, who are endowed from birth with competencies in whale harpooning, supposed to do? Based on the reviews, it appears that Miller believes that some sort of supernatural force is at work to prevent this from happening. If one is willing to believe in supernatural forces that intervene in the natural world, than can't that be used to justify any action in this best of all possible worlds?