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04 October 2013

Friday Night Question, Morning edition What motivates you to improve yourself?

post by: bearwife at: 11:28 | 15 comments

Lately, my motivation has come from having stopped a heart medication (ISMN) whose primary side-effect on me was a mental fog.

posted by Ardiril 04 October | 12:14

Looking Good, Feeling Good (which was also the title of our 9th grade PE textbook).

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 October | 12:24

Self-loathing, of course.

posted by Hugh Janus 04 October | 12:53

Money.

posted by Melismata 04 October | 13:59

Professionally: Fear of letting someone down.

Personally: Curiosity, of the "What cool stuff can I learn or think about today?" variety.

posted by occhiblu 04 October | 14:40

My husband, my dog, the mirror, the job, and the scale, pretty much in that order.

posted by bearwife 04 October | 14:52

Heh! At this point, the down escalator is moving faster than I can walk upward and make progress, so I'm just trying to maintain.

Why try? It because of my responsibility to others and a little bit of vanity.

posted by mightshould 04 October | 15:39

Having come from a background of poverty - both financial and emotional - my strong survival instinct and feelings of inadequacy and insecurity keep me striving to do better all the time. Even though I have a great life, a wonderful job, lots of friends, two good degrees and a professional qualification, I still have 'imposter syndrome' and feel that, at any time, someone will come along and say "Sorry, we made a mistake, none of this was meant for you".

posted by Senyar 04 October | 17:39

I think my answers are similar to occhi's. Curiosity, mostly, and not wanting to let people down.

Plus, I guess, a certain degree of aesthetic irritability, sort of like a homeopathic quantity of Steve Jobs.

posted by tangerine 04 October | 17:47

Rage.

posted by jason's_planet 04 October | 18:57

That is, properly channeled rage.

posted by jason's_planet 04 October | 21:58

The only real self-improvement is improved self-acceptance.

posted by Obscure Reference 04 October | 22:32

Nothing. I'm perfect the way I am. ; )

posted by Pips 05 October | 14:35

Terror of slipping back out of the middle class. Grew up pretty white trash/urban hillbilly and can never quite shake that.

posted by octothorpe 05 October | 22:10

I also have class-based motivation - dammit, I'm not going to be beaten, I'm going to make it.

Also, just an insane conviction that I have something to say/offer that no one else can say or offer.

posted by Miko 05 October | 22:45

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