I have another post that explains my motivation problem, but I have a question about something else. I watched a movie a couple weeks ago about some poor kids who lost their family in war and basically starved to death over the next couple months. Extremely depressing, but amazingly it motivated me to study extraordinarily hard the next day. Why? This kinda bothers me. I have wife and kid and feel they rely heavily on me succeeding, but the positive rewards of my studying don't seem to motivate me. However, this very depressing negative movie did? Is this healthy to be motivated by negativity or fear? Should I work to fix the root of this? Any suggestions? I have even thought to buy the movie to watch it more just to motivate me, but wonder if I shouldn't instead try to figure out the problem and fix it. Thanks.
