Driving Forces In Life

Driving Forces are those factors which pushes any organism (humans, animals, virus, bacteria, plants) and motivates to an objective/action/target/behaviour.

To understand these factors/forces, we can categorize them simply into two categories—

1) Survival – This comes from basic inner instinct. It lies in each organism on the earth. Any organism would try its best to survive in the world.

Example—

A bacterium would try its best to cope with the immunity of the host as well as antibiotics. It has only one reason; survival. To survive, the instinct plays its role to kick start something in each organism to increase the survival chances of that organism.

A virus buried under glaciers for thousands of years would be activated as soon as it finds a suitable environment with suitable host; the reason is its basic instinct to survive.

Humans were living as shrew-sized mammals during dinosaur time. With that continuous survival instinct, humans evolved from those shew-sized mammals and became one of the intelligent and productive animals on the planet.

When a baby is born, it starts with a cry to kick start it respiratory system. Because it is the first necessary system which must start as soon as a baby is separated from the life support system inside the womb. This instinct is encoded in the DNA of each organism.

A baby octopus, a baby turtle, a squid, a baby snake, a baby insect, all have natural basic instinct of survival, defense, find food and have off springs. These information are encoded in the DNA of organism and kick starts as soon as they are born.

A human baby can float in the water easily soon after birth, though many parents don’t believe and are scared to let baby independently swim in the water. Human baby have natural instinct to paddle hands and kick legs when they touch water; Reason — baby is swimming for more than 9 months in the womb of mother in amniotic fluid. This instinct can be lost , we don’t let babies touch and swim independently in the water (parental observation is equally important)

While growing up, we are also doing a lot of things in life with our instincts and to survive in this world. If, we already have survival skills necessary for the worst situation, we can better cope in the future and be successful. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. If, you want to other people to better survive in the future world, better to give them skills necessary for the future and which help them to survive in those environment

Examples——– Swimming skills, Problem solving skills, Defense skills, Human relations skills, communication skills, situational awareness skills, Learning skills, Adaptive skills, etc. Teaching these skills would make sure that your loved one would have better chance of survival in the future.

Note: Nature has given us that instinct of survival by birth. Every kid is born with same set of natural basic survival instincts. It is up to the adults to understand it and let kids explore their instincts. People do not let kids to explore the world around them and learn from it and use their basic survival instincts. With time, kids lost this natural instinct and parents have difficulty in teaching same thing again from zero. Parents would also work hard to understand these basic natural instincts and let kids explore them as well as teach survival skills necessary for future.

2) Satisfaction – Satisfaction is another driving force which pushes every organism forward. When an organism is satisfied with an action, that organism would repeat that action again and again to feel that satisfaction repeatedly.

Example—-

A bear got a chance to grab a packet of Nachos, if, that bear loves the taste of nachos and feel satisfied; that bear is going to come every time to grab another packet of nachos. that is the power of satisfaction.

You make some nice steak at home and offer to a kid with the sauce of his/her flavor, and if that kid loves it’ he/she would always ask for it because that kid was satisfied with your offer the first time.

How can we use this satisfaction to bring positive outcomes in our life and people around us?

A mutually benefited satisfaction would bring positive outcome. If, you try to apply a selfish satisfaction or one-sided satisfaction, it would never bring any positive outcome and never be sustainable. We always have to focus where both sides are satisfied.

For example –

If, you force a person to do something because it makes only you happy, the other person might do it for few times and would protest/ignore you call because that person is not satisfies with the action you are telling him/her to do. It would only bring one-sided satisfaction and a faction.

When you are doing some activity with kid. If, you force it on that kid without any fun in it, it would only lead to your personal satisfaction. kid would start to ignore you and would look for excuses to run away from you.

If, you expect any human/animal to do what satisfies you only, then you must understand that for sometimes, you would feel great and enjoy that selfish/one-sided satisfaction. Later, the other side would not listen to you/start with a soft protest leading to a strong one/ignore you completely/ run away from the situation/ look for excuses/ start to see you as a dictator and selfish person/ not share any personal matter/ no consider you as his/her friend and admirer etc.

As you see in the examples that one sided/selfish satisfaction would never bring any positive results in the long run.

But, if, you involve some fun and motivation in that activity, the result would be very positive and healthy.

For example-

Suppose, you are teaching your kid skateboarding. You could teach your kid skateboarding for 20 minutes and give 5 minutes fun time where kid would use that skateboard as he/she likes. That kid would also feel satisfied after doing that activity as well as you would achieve your objective. And, it would also lead to positive result.

You must learn about hobbies/likes/dislikes of other person and use it as a driving force and give satisfaction to that person to achieve a common objective.

You can apply this on your employees, colleagues, kids, students, parents, animals and any person whom you are guiding in your life.

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