by Hans Bool
In order to get motivated you need a personal drive not something abstract, like an organizational goal. But something that you can feel. It is sometimes interesting to observe other areas where motivation plays a role. Two recent production about the world war II contribute interesting material to the motivation discussion.
Clint Eastwood recently produced two films about the second world war, one from the viewpoint of the American soldiers (Flag of our fathers) and the other - letters from Iwo Jima, from the side of the Japanese soldiers. I have not seen the films (yet) but read about them and found one very interesting motivator that showed up in the comments about this film (and the book of James Bradley).
...Referring to the famous iconic picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, Clint Eastwood says, "Everybody has their own idea about what makes the photograph special. On one level, it’s guys doing some work -- raising a pole -- and that may be how the six guys in the picture saw it themselves. But in 1945, it symbolized the war effort.” For Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at the age of 94, it was clear who the heroes were.
Of course many movies have this theme about being a hero which is as old as the journey of Odysseus described by Homer. A comment made by Fernando Goitia in XLSemanal about the same movies mentions the rationality behind the soldiers motivation: “of course I may get killed in the war, but I may also return as a hero.”
There is a motivator!
An old theme recurring in literature and therefore very credible. Perhaps this is not new and revealing a lot because it seems so simple. But at the same time it is enormous powerful. A personal drive for people to enter war – “I may return as a hero.”
Of course there are other motivators to enter a war zone. To serve your country, to serve world peace, but these have a collective and abstract character and they do not motivate. Motivation is what you feel. The mythical sensation to return as a hero.
In order to get motivated you need a personal drive not something abstract, like an organizational goal. But something that you can feel. It is sometimes interesting to observe other areas where motivation plays a role. Two recent production about the world war II contribute interesting material to the motivation discussion.
Clint Eastwood recently produced two films about the second world war, one from the viewpoint of the American soldiers (Flag of our fathers) and the other - letters from Iwo Jima, from the side of the Japanese soldiers. I have not seen the films (yet) but read about them and found one very interesting motivator that showed up in the comments about this film (and the book of James Bradley).
...Referring to the famous iconic picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, Clint Eastwood says, "Everybody has their own idea about what makes the photograph special. On one level, it’s guys doing some work -- raising a pole -- and that may be how the six guys in the picture saw it themselves. But in 1945, it symbolized the war effort.” For Rosenthal, who died in 2006 at the age of 94, it was clear who the heroes were.
Of course many movies have this theme about being a hero which is as old as the journey of Odysseus described by Homer. A comment made by Fernando Goitia in XLSemanal about the same movies mentions the rationality behind the soldiers motivation: “of course I may get killed in the war, but I may also return as a hero.”
There is a motivator!
An old theme recurring in literature and therefore very credible. Perhaps this is not new and revealing a lot because it seems so simple. But at the same time it is enormous powerful. A personal drive for people to enter war – “I may return as a hero.”
Of course there are other motivators to enter a war zone. To serve your country, to serve world peace, but these have a collective and abstract character and they do not motivate. Motivation is what you feel. The mythical sensation to return as a hero.
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