Love to Do.

My roommate is a staunch visionary, what I mean by visionary is that he requires purpose before doing any work. On the contrary, I am a highly objective person, give me task and the task shall be done. Don't talk to me about why or for what the work is being done, it has to be done. Now the conflict happened when we became roomies, for me it was a completely new dimension. Finding reason before doing things is difficult, and it is still sometimes highly confusing and frustrating. But over the year, I went over board his boat and have started thinking the purpose before doing something.

Last month, I was reading an article, it said that there are three motivational factors of doing anything, first is love, second fear and third greed. In events of our lives, we can commonly find these as the reason behind doing something. Let us take a simple task of dressing up for a party; a girl would most probably do it because she loves to dress up. Men with the fear of being laughed at dress up or with a greed of attracting the opposite sex. 

The purpose gets served in all three cases but the intention and the attitude differ in three. When we love to do something we are not looking for approval, we are in love of dressing up. Greed and fear also make you look pretty but the only thing that we look for in the party is compliment.

In Mahabharata, karna (the competitor to Arjuna) asks Krishna why he has to face defeat. Even though both had the same power and knowledge.Krishna tells him that his whole education is based on the purpose of defeating Arjuna. There is greed and fear in this education. Arjuna did it for purpose of gaining knowledge that is why he was invincible. Knowing purpose of doing thing is great and greater is doing something because you love to do it. Then you will become invincible.