People often dont realize the importance of questions in their life.
Because the questions you are going to ask yourself will determine the kind of person
you are going to become.
In fact, some questions are so powerful that they can actually change your entirely perception
about life and lead you to take absolutely different path that will completely reshape
your life.
But the problem is that, we got use to ask ourselves difficult questions but are not
important such as: How to make more money?
How to get people to like you? or is college worth it?
Although that these questions seem pretty important but they are absolutely useless
because they are simple the consequences of much simpler questions.
And as long as you haven’t figured out the simple one yet, there is no point to run behind
the difficult ones.
There is one unique and I would say special question that you should be asking yourself
all the time and that’s - WHY?
Although that this question seems pretty simple, answering it isn’t as easy as it seems.
In fact, its one of the most important life questions ever.
And the clearer and deeper you can answer this question, the easier life is going to
get.
let's say for example: I want to make a lot of money.
So I would ask myself - Why?
why would I want to make a lot of money.
If you think about it, the answer is obvious.
I want to have a lot of fancy things, a better car, nicer clothes, smarter gadgets, bigger
house.
At this point, we can already conclude that I don’t really need the money but what money
can actually provide.
But we aren’t going to stop here, we will keep asking - why - until we get to the root
of it.
So the following step is - why do I want to have all of this fancy things.
My mind is telling, I want people to treat me differently, to respect me, I want to have
some kind of authority.
Just by asking this question twice, we already have figured out that I am not running behind
money, success or the luxury but rather i want respect and authority.
lets dig deeper, why do I want respect and power?
to attract positive important people into my life and to be loved.
Just think about it.
We went from wanting a lot of money to the most basic simple human need.
Being sarounded by loving important respect people.
To love and being loved.
The deeper I dig , the better I understand myself.
The clearer i can set my priorities and values.
So in order for me to be happy, I just need to do something that will make people love
me and as a result of that attract positive important people to me, such as being a more
useful person.
I should try to bring more value to the people around me.
But unfortunately the society has led me to think that i should dedicate my life to earning
money, regardless of what I want.
By the way, you should stop there.
You should keep going (asking why) until you get to the root of it.
Then only you will understand what you really desire.
Otherwise you will be chasing something you dont really want.
However, that doesn’t mean.
I will stop earning money.
But rather, I will have a deeper and much more stronger motivation.
Because I know that I am not simply trying to make more papers but rather I am trying
to achieve something more meaningful.
You can spend all of your life going though those papers in the office or flipping burgers
in Macdolands.
But when you clearly know that WHY behind it, you will do it with stronger motivation
and enthusiasm.