High level of motivation acquires success

When Joe Frazier was heavyweight champion of the world, a journalist asked him, "Why do you box?" Frazier replied, "Because I'm a boxer," and seemed irritated that the interviewer didn't understand. The critic H.L. Mencken said in 1932: "I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs." <Tab/>Where does this kind of motivation come from? Are people like this trapped by blind instinct or …

…Hierarchy of Needs, where the highest form is the self-actualization level. <Tab/>People who take the trouble to create a mission based on values gain clarity about what they really want, independent of what seems possible. Creating a statement of an ideal reality allows a person to start building bridges between the current state of affairs and the ideal one. In short, values provide leverage for mission, and mission motivates achievement.