What Motivates us

This is a great video and along the mind mapping routine.

http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/11/the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/

Romantic Realist..What a realization.

We the living….read again

I am reading We the Living by Ayn Rand again. I must say I usually do not read the Forewards in a book but something sparked me to read this one. I identified with her words and that brought tears to my eyes. I am always questioning what kind of person am I and who I want to be? I know I’m a Realist, Libertarian, Objectivist, Honest, Sexy woman but Ayn Rand said the most profound part in how she writes and she writes Romance. She said she was a Romantic Realist…WOW that hit me because that’s who I am, I could identify with every component of what she was saying. I love romance. That is what women want the sublty of a touch, a look, the little gestures of love, those are romance. In reading her books for instance Atlas Shrugged, the gift of the bracelet that was romance, it was piece of Reardon to his wife. She didn’t understand, but Dagney the main character understood and traded her diamonds for the metal bracelet. That is romance, that is love, that is what builds great relationships and friendships. Those simple acts mean so much more than just saying I Love You or giving big gifts. Those acts make great memories.

She loved yes, but her love was in the reality of romance and life. Combining those two traits together creates amazing stories and life that are real that never die, never date themselves and mostly are true to principle and value and have a moral code.

I had a great conversation today with someone and said the greatest gift you could give is time. Time creates memories it’s not the gifts it is the gift of time. Then those occasional gifts like the bracelet in Atlas Shrugged have meaning so much more than being lavished with things.

So today I learned I’m a Romantic Realist and that is exciting to me because that is truth, my reality and my life.