“To achieve meaningful behavior change, the most salient question is this:

“What kind of person do I want to be?”

No easy question to answer. But a good starting place is to decide what you want to motivate you. There’s always a choice, provided that you don’t spend your life on automatic pilot or wondering what kind of person you are…

There is a unique drive within humans to create value, to invest appreciation, time, energy, effort, and sacrifice in certain persons, groups, objects, and behaviors. Note that we don’t literally experience value so much as create it. A sunset has value only if we actively invest the time and effort to appreciate it. Civilization is not a by-product of the instinct to survive and reproduce, as I recently read; it is a result of the drive to create value.

Unlike mere excitement or indulging in what you like and enjoy, creating value makes you feel like a better person.”

What Kind of Person Do You Want to Be?