Originally Posted by
Alejandro
but if you still don't want to do it, you're just forcing yourself to do it, and even if you manage to successfully motivate yourself then you're just convincing yourself of wanting to do it and therefore you now want to do it, there's a shift in intention, you still either want to do something or you don't, motivation is out of the picture because the human desire to action is binary, to want something is binary, grey areas on this are self-deceit and meant to be muddied, such as a sense of duty, moral responsibility, and such. Not to be taken in a reductionist approach though
is human desire to action really binary though
think about it
you want to go steal a stop sign
but you also don't want to face the consequences of stealing said stop sign.
and in this case, let's say you don't steal the stop sign
but thinking again, that stop sign is so cool, and my roommate would really like that stop sign on our wall.
so now you steal the stop sign, since you justified doing this thing in your head via another reason.
the other reason, in most cases, is the motivation. your motivation to steal the stop sign was your roommate liking it, otherwise you wouldn't have done it.
makes sense yeah