On his life, a person often faces situations of choice and issues that affect life goals and positions and can lead to drastic changes. One of these questions: "What should a man strive for?", And the answer, of course, everyone finds for himself.
What do people want? Someone earns a comfortable life, someone constantly improves, and someone is in constant search for inner harmony. It is difficult to say whether there is a right and wrong way, but you can try to understand the mechanisms of the basic aspirations in order to better understand yourself and others.
Why do people seek power?
It is believed that the desire for power is one of the main driving forces of human actions, if, of course, power is a personal value. Strive for power can be for many reasons, but the most common are only two:
- Selfish satisfaction from a situation in which a person obeys;
- desire to do something useful from society.
Obviously, different goals lead to different results of such a desire. If in the first case we get a tyrant, who will manage to manage people with a literally sadistic pleasure, in the second case the manager will strive, first of all, for the well-being of his subordinates.
Analyzing these reasons it is easy enough to understand why people are trying to make a career and take leadership positions.
Why do people seek justice?
In general, the notion of justice is sufficiently abstract and individual, but in general terms it can be defined as the proportionality of the benefits received to the applied efforts. This definition can be applied if, for example, it is a question of remuneration of labor or interpersonal relations (from them, in fact, too, people derive a certain benefit for themselves). This desire for justice is one of the foundations of modern market relations in society, a kind of path to survival and development. Equity also includes a number of guarantees that allow a person to be more or less confident in the future and their security, which reduces the level of anxiety and stress and, on the contrary, has a positive effect on the level of satisfaction with life.
Why do people seek knowledge?
How important knowledge is, we are told from an early age. But some get the minimum necessary for existence and are not interested in anything else, while others devote their entire lives to science and are always ready to discover something new for themselves. A person who aspires to knowledge, is in constant search of answers and new questions and only from this process already receives huge pleasure. One hundred to say about the joy of new discoveries and public recognition. Sometimes knowledge becomes an end in itself, a meaning of life, and sometimes act as information necessary to achieve the goal. After all, in our society, it is often knowledge that largely determines the level of prosperity and the degree of freedom of a person.
What do people want to get rid of?
It is quite logical that people try to get rid of those things that do not have a positive impact on their life, but, on the contrary, make it less comfortable or even unbearable. Here is a short list of such phenomena:
- various dependencies (primarily bad habits and financial obligations);
- relationships that are not satisfying;
- imperfections (in the surrounding world, society, their appearance, etc.);
- unnecessary things.
It is important to understand that it is really not worth keeping something that you do not need and does not bring joy. It is much more reasonable to get rid of this in time to make room for something new, more useful and enjoyable.