{"id":447,"date":"2020-01-29T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:06:53","slug":"motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Godfather: Killing Sollozzo and McCluskey (HD CLIP)\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5nvA2t_JanM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>For those of you have not seen the movie the Godfather, this clip was intense. Let me catch<br>you up even if you have seen the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Story goes like this Don Vito Corleone a boss of one of the crime families in New York<br>receives a request from a fellow boss, Sollozzo. Sollozzo wants to expand<br>his influence and increase his cash flow by selling heroin, and wants<br>Don Corleone to front him some money to get his business going.<\/p>\n<p>Don Corleone refuses, so Sollozzo has him gunned down in the street. Sollozzo<br>kidnaps Vitos consigliere while Vito&#8217;s son Sonny assumes command after Vito was<br>wounded. Sollozzo tries to convince Sonny to fund his business.<\/p>\n<p>Vito recovers and Sollozzo makes another attempt on Vito&#8217;s life, this time<br>his younger son Michael ( Al Pacino ) stops the attempt, and gets his<br>jaw broken by the captain of the NY police, Mc Cluskey,<\/p>\n<p>McCluskey is one of Sollozzo&#8217;s politcal ties ( when you&#8217;re selling<br>drugs I suppose a crooked cop would come in handy ), and is the other<br>guest at the table. Michael agrees to meet them to sort things out, and<br>knows that Sollozzo isn&#8217;t going to stop until he gets what he wants, so he&#8217;s got to whack him.<\/p>\n<p>I chose this scene for it&#8217;s setting, this is probably the most famous dinner scene in any movie that<br>I can think of. You usually don&#8217;t whack people at the dinner table, I<br>suppose it depends on how hangry you are, but typically the dinner<br>table is a pleasant place.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to the title of this blog, &#8220;Motivation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Motivation<\/i> &#8211; the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.<\/p>\n<p>At the dinner table ( unless you&#8217;re Michael Corleone ) you<br>are motivated to fill that belly, and satisfy those taste buds. When it<br>comes to food you will typically follow your nose.<\/p>\n<p>Food is sort of a pleasure, some people eat to live, and others<br>will live to eat. We are motivated by survival instincts, whether it&#8217;s<br>carnal or sophisticated.<\/p>\n<p>Hedonism is the school of thought that your well-being is surrounded<br>about seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. The school of thought<br>was initially established under Aristippus of Cyrene, an early Socratic<br>school. The idea was that intrisic good was surrounded about<br>pleasure. Not in the erotic sense you perverts. We make our decisions by how we gauge its worth.<\/p>\n<p>What an easy way to tell whether or not you are doing it right&#8230;right?<br>Do I like it, does it make me feel good, how painful was it to get it? Well along<br>with this concept is ethical hedonism, and basically how this goes<br>&#8220;is this proposed idea that we are going to introduce generate more pain than good<br>for the masses&#8221;, if it&#8217;s not too painful let&#8217;s do it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you have not seen the movie the Godfather, this clip was intense. 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