On Motivation, New Cover Art, and MGS Bundle
Posted on June 10th, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Here are more new concept arts from Yan. I personally think they are great, really fitting the theme of the story.
What’s new this week is I finally accepted another job offer. One that takes me on a somewhat different career path. But my motto is still I dont quite give a damn about my career as long as it pays the bills. What I really care about is what I have talked about in this blog, developing a kick-ass game and writing a even more kick-ass story. Changing job brought me to a discussion of motivation with a good friend of mine. She said she thinks I am a totally unmotivated individual. She thinks that I am not interested to do anything at all. I do agree that I give off that vibe constantly becuase I am very easy-going and I often sound very lazy and I often complaing about going to work and driving in traffic but I just realize that the vibe the I give off totally overrides every accomplishment I have and things I actually do. Sometimes you think that people know you well, but in fact, they don’t. And I start to realize people who don’t read my blog probably don’t know me at all. She argues that most people she knows are more career-oriented and seem much more motivated than I am, and I said but if they don’t make much more money than I do how do you justify their motivation? I really expect seriously career-motivated people to have started a few companies and become CEO by my age (hay look at the facebook guy!), or they should have failed by trying. I think the kind of motivation she felt that other people had, were all superficial, there are people who are motivated to go to a new club or do a new sports or go drink new wine every weekend, but I am the kind that likes to stay home and finish a few more books or finish playing GTA. I guess I don’t sound very motivated, and I do feel that I have much less motivation than much more succesful people than I am, but I think I have done more than the regular person, even though that may not be good enough. But seriously, we are all trying to be happy, if being lazy make you happy, your motivation is to get the most by doing the least, and that is your motivation, who is there to judge you?
What’s new this week is I finally accepted another job offer. One that takes me on a somewhat different career path. But my motto is still I dont quite give a damn about my career as long as it pays the bills. What I really care about is what I have talked about in this blog, developing a kick-ass game and writing a even more kick-ass story. Changing job brought me to a discussion of motivation with a good friend of mine. She said she thinks I am a totally unmotivated individual. She thinks that I am not interested to do anything at all. I do agree that I give off that vibe constantly becuase I am very easy-going and I often sound very lazy and I often complaing about going to work and driving in traffic but I just realize that the vibe the I give off totally overrides every accomplishment I have and things I actually do. Sometimes you think that people know you well, but in fact, they don’t. And I start to realize people who don’t read my blog probably don’t know me at all. She argues that most people she knows are more career-oriented and seem much more motivated than I am, and I said but if they don’t make much more money than I do how do you justify their motivation? I really expect seriously career-motivated people to have started a few companies and become CEO by my age (hay look at the facebook guy!), or they should have failed by trying. I think the kind of motivation she felt that other people had, were all superficial, there are people who are motivated to go to a new club or do a new sports or go drink new wine every weekend, but I am the kind that likes to stay home and finish a few more books or finish playing GTA. I guess I don’t sound very motivated, and I do feel that I have much less motivation than much more succesful people than I am, but I think I have done more than the regular person, even though that may not be good enough. But seriously, we are all trying to be happy, if being lazy make you happy, your motivation is to get the most by doing the least, and that is your motivation, who is there to judge you?
On a second note, did Amazon.com crash Friday morning because of pre-ordring of MGS bundle? I was quite motivated to get the bundle (talking about my lack of motivation for everything else). The deal started at 10 pacific time, I got to work and logged in and 10:10 and could not get the deal, and constant refreshing after that caused Amazon to crash for 2 hours straight later. Did I participate in brining down the house? Is that poor load balancing on their end (should they not hire me instead)? Is it simple coincidence or has the world underestimated the number of MGS fanatics? But at the end of the day, I did not get my hands of MGS and PS3. But today, I seem more excited at the 3G Iphone. Until next time, JF out.
