How can we remain motivated, if we become neutral to success and failure in order to have lasting happiness?

Answer 1

Why not?Success and failure do happen and vanish. But you are there and to enjoy all that.Your perception of lasting happiness is the same as basis for everyone and,once we understand what it is, that itself is reason enough for LIFE and we continue.

Answer 2

Personally, my motivation doesn't come from "success". I do the best I can at anything I do with the amount of time I have. I've had jobs paying from $4 something an hour on up, and I can honestly say that I've done my best at each of them.

Success shouldn't be a motivation. It is an outcome that occurs because someone has internal motivation.

As far as failure, I recently read a quote from a basketball player, and he listed how many shots he had missed, how many times he had been trusted to make the winning basket and missed, how many free throws he had missed, how many times he had fouls called on him. There is a similar poster of Lincoln's failures. There are similar stories about Edison and the light bulb. In fact, I would feel fairly confident saying that any successful person has had a great many failures to get to where they are.

For a person who's motivation comes from within, failure just means that you risked failing because you tried. You must fail many times to succeed.

Motivation is internal.

A string of failures is merely a path of stepping stones leading to success.

Answer 3

We can remain motivated if we strive towards a goal without being attached to the outcome.

The ideas of success and failure imply an end point. While I may "fail" at a certain task, this is not a final indictment of a particular skill. I can improve through practice, or even simply try again.

Most people who are currently "Successful" failed numerous times. If they allowed themselves to be too attached to each failure, they might not have continued to try. On the other hand, If they became too attached to a particular sucess they might not strive towards improvement.

We can remain neutral to a particular outcome if we remamber that we are on a greater journey. We can remain motivated if we strive towards the greater goal of self improvement.

Answer 4

Maybe motivations concerning success and failure aren't qualities related to happiness.

Answer 5

It is hard to stay motivated if you worry about success and failure. Thomas Edison had a lot more failures that he had successes. But we need to celebrate the little successes and ignore the failures. Little successes build to bigger ones.

Answer 6

Motivation is derived from the desire to achieve success and avoid failure.
You can’t lose the desire without losing the motivation.
You can’t ‘motivate’ a car in neutral.

Happiness comes from the sense your are succeeding at whatever you think your purpose is.

Which means you can adjust your happiness either by actually succeeding at something, or by redefining your purpose to make it easier to succeed, or impossible to fail.

Now it’s possible to achieve perpetual happiness by disconnecting your sense of purpose from the real world, but this is dangerous. At best you become de-motivated, at worst you strap on explosives in pursuit of seventy heavenly virgins, instead of pursing one earthly virgin, willing to change her ways.

Leave your purpose connected to the real world, because the point of life is NOT happiness, the point of happiness is life. The point of sadness is life.

There are no negative emotions, because all emotions are here to help us survive and thrive. We should not try and eliminate or perpetuate a given emotional state, merely make sure the emotional states are serving their purpose.

I hate to fail. But I define failure as the process of learning how to succeed, so I don’t spend much time being depressed.

We need to stay connected to life. We need to fail sometimes. Because tuning into that all happy, all the time channel, creates those silly teachers who don’t understand, that making sure everyone gets a trophy, is making sure no one does.

Answer 7

success is supposed to make you happy and give you more energy to go further.
failure is supposed to make you angery which motivates to fight for success.

sometimes failure brings me hopelessness - that is when I review my plan to see if my efforts are made in the wrong direction.

If you fail the first time you must try try and try till you succeed.
But still if you do not succeed, change the course, no point flogging a dead horse.

But they only you know "when"

eNJOy

Answer 8

Where is it written that you can't have success AND happiness at the same time? It's not one or the other. To be happy as well as successful you need to follow your heart and find things that make you happy...which keeps you motivated and that road leads to success!

Answer 9

The betterment of mankind and simply knowing that you are doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. To strive to be an attriute and not a burden. Simply to know that you are advancing and not digressing. Feel motivated that you have broken free of the pack of sheep duped into working there axx off to pad the pockets of someone with more $ than scruppels.

Answer 10

I dont think it is possible for any human being to be neutral to both sucess and failure. It is not possible!It is not in our nature as human beings. And you dont have to be neutral to two opposing things to have lasting happiness. They way i see it, be upset, learn from ur failure , move on! Be happy on ur success.