What’s your basic instinct?

Saving

Curiosity

Family

Order

Romance

Vengeance

Power

Independence

Honour

Social contact

Hunger

Idealism

Acceptance

Tranquility

Physicality

Social standing

The sixteen basic human motivations.

They form the basis for every action that we take.

But at the heart of it, every motivation feeds into one called ‘Order’

‘Order’ means everything should be in place at the end of it. A no-chaos scenario.

When you go after ‘saving’ it is so that you can have a secure future. ‘ORDER’

When act out of ‘curiosity’, you expect to learn something that you’ve been itching to. Post that it’s a feeling of contentment. ‘ORDER’

Your ‘family’ instincts are driven by a need to have people around you during good as well as bad times. ‘ORDER’

You exhibit ‘romance’ so that you get a partner. So that you excite your partner. A partner is comfort. ‘ORDER’.

Similarly every other motivation can finally lead into order.

Order is the last level of motivation. It is not a primary motivation.

Problem begins when we adopt order as the primary motivation. Driven by long term goals and all that non-sense.

“In the long term we are all dead”, said John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist.

If you begin to seek order, then you tend to miss out on all the other motivations which are more exciting and make your life richer.

Order only makes your life stagnant and poorer.

Once order sets in, you don’t know where to go. Or what to look for next.

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