Why love is the greatest driver of success
For many people success is motivated by a variety of outcomes, ranging from love to anger, and every emotion in between. In my life the one that seems most successful is love. People will go to great lengths to be petty or out of anger, and theres no shortage of those types of stories online especially on Reddit. But to me I have found that love is the most powerful driver for its motivational power, and the outcome that is received.
Love is a powerful motivator. For parents it drives them to work harder and pursue promotions to deliver a better life for their children. For people in relationships, if one person is working hard to make income and another person is supporting them through the process, it is the desire to make someone else’s life better. In general the feeling of seeing someone working to help someone else is what makes it powerful because you want to “pay the effort” back. In a relationship you will often see this when one person is continuing to pursue higher education while the other person supports them.
So why, does this love seems so much more powerful than other emotions? When it comes to pettiness or anger, a lot of it can be attributed to social media of people sharing stories in much of the same way that positive stories are shared. While many enjoy their stories of exacting revenge or “just desserts” the reality is that…