Motivation and motivated people are products of certain behaviors.
* The primary driver of motivation in animal brains (even in small worms) is a healthy dopamine cycle. In the brain there exists a dopamine baseline by which regular drive and motivation occur. There are also dopamine spikes when a pleasurable moment occurs. A dopamine spike is always followed by a dopamine crash and that dopamine crash will always occur in the same ratio below baseline that the spike occurred above baseline. Driven people are able to maintain a near constant high baseline and recognize their depressive spikes with healthy and positive responses.
Drug use, except for caffeine, almost always damages and/or destroys either the dopamine cycle or permanent dopamine production. A primary motivator behind the consumption of drugs, particularly combinations of drugs, is chasing a dopamine high that has already left the brain.
* Openness is one of the big 5 of personality indicators. Openness is the willingness to try new experiences and creativity falls under openness. Openness is not in any way correlated with extroversion.
These are not necessarily alpha personalities, as in their goal is probably not to compete but rather to be productive and industrious and probably original. This is an important distinction because alpha personalities qualify their performance in comparison to others while industrious and/or creative people quality their performance in response to their output even when there are not other people to compare against.
Those two qualities are what you need to look for: healthy living by people with a naturally higher than average dopamine baseline and people with a high personality index in openness. I recommend looking for people who have an abnormal need to build and/or produce things. The famous musician Hans Zimmer is really good at this. He has a traveling band composed of a mix of classically trained musicians and rock/metal musicians. When Hans Zimmer looks for new band members he has on several occasions found highly talented amateurs off of personal videos posted to YouTube. These are people who may completely lake the confidence of an alpha personality, but are still driven to create music and post it on YouTube at risk of complete embarrassment. The result is that Hans Zimmer hires emerging talent on the cheap and this emerging talent is immediately thrust into world-class training.
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Motivation and motivated people are products of certain behaviors.
* The primary driver of motivation in animal brains (even in small worms) is a healthy dopamine cycle. In the brain there exists a dopamine baseline by which regular drive and motivation occur. There are also dopamine spikes when a pleasurable moment occurs. A dopamine spike is always followed by a dopamine crash and that dopamine crash will always occur in the same ratio below baseline that the spike occurred above baseline. Driven people are able to maintain a near constant high baseline and recognize their depressive spikes with healthy and positive responses.
Drug use, except for caffeine, almost always damages and/or destroys either the dopamine cycle or permanent dopamine production. A primary motivator behind the consumption of drugs, particularly combinations of drugs, is chasing a dopamine high that has already left the brain.
* Openness is one of the big 5 of personality indicators. Openness is the willingness to try new experiences and creativity falls under openness. Openness is not in any way correlated with extroversion.
These are not necessarily alpha personalities, as in their goal is probably not to compete but rather to be productive and industrious and probably original. This is an important distinction because alpha personalities qualify their performance in comparison to others while industrious and/or creative people quality their performance in response to their output even when there are not other people to compare against.
Those two qualities are what you need to look for: healthy living by people with a naturally higher than average dopamine baseline and people with a high personality index in openness. I recommend looking for people who have an abnormal need to build and/or produce things. The famous musician Hans Zimmer is really good at this. He has a traveling band composed of a mix of classically trained musicians and rock/metal musicians. When Hans Zimmer looks for new band members he has on several occasions found highly talented amateurs off of personal videos posted to YouTube. These are people who may completely lake the confidence of an alpha personality, but are still driven to create music and post it on YouTube at risk of complete embarrassment. The result is that Hans Zimmer hires emerging talent on the cheap and this emerging talent is immediately thrust into world-class training.
* Guthrie Govan discovered by Hans Zimmer via YoutTube - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie_Govan#Hans_Zimmer
* Dopamine explained in a 2 hour video by a Stanford neurology professor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU