develop and make life easier for
ourselves well I believe it comes down
to a few things now please watch the
video presented on the screen while i
narrate what occurs to you all right so
as we can see here there is a male and
female spider and so the male spider the
smaller one on top managed to attract
the female by flaunting his colors but
as you can see here he is being rolled
up into a ball and he will turn out to
be her dessert sort of like a
marshmallow and then there’s this video
this is bull was pheasant and he has got
spectacular wattles he’s impressive
enough when he’s going about his normal
business but when she is around he gets
impressive though he is she is very
don’t ask me about what that whole thing
was because I have no idea but in this
video produced by BBC wildlife so David
Attenborough states he is not good
enough and this brings me to competition
it is natural within every species
competition is one of the main driving
factors that lead us to improving our
lifestyle it is a never-ending cycle
that takes place every day for each and
every one of us it drives us and pushes
us to succeed it is the survival of the
fittest and it is natural selection as
we know it so people working jobs
throughout every day of their lives deal
with us and they’re always trying to
impress constantly trying to flourish
within their workspace attempting to
stand out from everyone else attempting
sorry and in order to gain that
attention and potentially a promotion as
well this is because us as humans we
crave recognition and as we continue to
compete with each other we achieve more
and more our lives become easier the
intensity increases as the smarter we
get we gain more knowledge as more
research is done and more discoveries
are made this further relates back to
science science is the basis of
everything we know biology chemistry
physics scientists are constantly trying
to out compete each other every day
leaving their own little mark unique
mark in history this in part is
consistent of and due to genetics
and DNA some people are pre-programmed
to have a drive for competition all they
want to do every day is compete to prove
that they are better than everyone else
but having said that there are people
that do not come preprogrammed to
compete but this is that this does not
result in a lack of motivation it does
not result in a lack of drive the way I
see it motivation is something that you
need to earn something you need to gain
and the way I see it you have to work
for it you have to work hard in order to
achieve something it doesn’t just come
to you when you wanted to otherwise
we’ll all be steve jobs and bill gates
and we’d all be billionaires and it
wouldn’t be special anymore but how do
we manage to motivate ourselves well one
of the answers is competition which I’ve
already talked about but there are
several other factors one of them I find
is fear of failure and this is personal
to me as well because I think about this
every day and it is what drives me I did
mention that we crave recognition but we
don’t only need it when we succeed and
go above and beyond but we also create
recognition and want it when we complete
a hard task whenever you’re attempting
to complete a task that is so hard that
you barely manage the completed at the
end you want recognition that is what
you crave and so nobody wants to be
considered a failure by anyone else by
their peers by their families or even by
themselves so I personally don’t want to
be the person within a team or group or
workspace that is considered the failure
I want to be the person that is relied
upon and given tasks rather than not
relied upon because they have a
reputation for not fulfilling tasks
successful
and I don’t even want to be the person
who misses out on important
opportunities because of that reputation
opportunities that can land me in places
later on in life I’m sure you could
agree especially those of you that have
ever been in that situation but not now
try to imagine this try to imagine
yourself in a situation where you’re
exhausted and you’re trying to complete
a task but it’s just not working out
you’re you’re close to the end but you
don’t know what to do next and suddenly
you get that little boost that little
boost the motivation that little push
forward that energy that suddenly
supplied to your brain that drives you
forward and you complete that task that
is because of fear of failure you are
too afraid to fail you don’t want to be
known as the failure and it is quite
powerful this fear of failure that we
have and it’s extremely influential
within our lives that’s not the only
thing I want to talk to you about there
is another factor there is also
extremely important failure isn’t
pleasant so I don’t want to leave you on
that note but the other factor is and
it’s having a dream every person in this
audience has their own dream their own
perception of what life should be like
later on and so now as humans we always
try to achieve something no matter what
it is try to think of a time when you’ve
either gone to the gym or worked out you
feel that little boost of energy at the
end as well where you feel happy you
feel enlightened that is because of a
neurotransmitter in your brain called
dopamine neurotransmitters are the
chemicals that are injected into your
brain through glance that allow you to
feel different things everything you
feel is in fact a chemical reaction now
dopamine
used to be considered the feel-good
chemical and this is because every time
you complete the day task you would get
a little hit of dopamine in your brain
which would make you feel happy and so I
wanted to go from talking about this
good feeling this dopamine and how you
can actually control that because it is
controllable people can use their brains
that they’re the hormones they’re
invited to their advantage and so this
is done by a step-down refinement you
take a large task maybe your end goal
maybe the goal for the end of the month
at the end of the year and you break it
down you break down into small
individual tasks that you can divide and
conquer and so with these tasks you
slowly train yourself to be happy once
you achieve and complete that task you
slowly train yourself to become more
motivated once you break down those
tasks you will find that it is easier to
complete the overall goal and so you can
control your dopamine level so use it to
your advantage and those in my opinion
are the main driving factors of what
causes us to progress as a species
humans have progressed a lot in the past
20 to 30 years much larger than the
hundred years before that and that’s
because as we come smarter and more
knowledgeable and the technology becomes
better as we progress we make it easier
for ourselves so therefore how long will
this movement forward last I don’t know
only time can tell what I can tell you
is that compete fear overall fair
failure but do not feel fear the little
farriers because you can learn from your
mistakes if you fail from a small task
take that mistake learn from it and move
forward use your powerful brains they’re
there for a reason
and dream big because everyone wants to
leave their own little mark in history
thank you very much
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