There are four types of influences in life... Falling under the combination of goal-oriented or reactive, and positive or negative.
Goal-oriented positive. He's my hero. I want to be just like him. I'll copy him. I'll do what he does. It made him sucessful. That should work for me. He's the greatest. I want to be great, too.
Goal-oriented negative. Yo, what a fuckin' slob. Can't even do a roundhouse. We can't be like him. Yo, what a fuckin' porker. How the hell did he get to this level? That's fuckin' embarassing right there... Yo, let's do whatever we can to not be like him.
Reactive positive. Look at all the cool things you'll get once you succeed! Mmm, butter...
Reactive negative. Look at all the crazy shzt that's going to happen to you if you don't straighten your life out. Look at [insert goal-oriented negative figure]. Do you want to be like him? Hah? Look at where he is.
Aside from reactive positive, I was thinking of a specific person in each one. Some close, some far. That... really sucks that I know people who do that. But anyway, I just wanted to note that none of it is working. I'm still pretty lazy.
Posted by Mark Canlas at January 14, 2003 08:43 PM