The Watermelon Principle
Consider...
What we want and what we like often don’t coincide.
We want great health, but we like fast food.
Or we want to be wealthy, but we like to spend.
Sometimes what we want can change.
We want a particular car, for example, but after driving it for a few years we find ourselves wanting something else: a different model, perhaps, or just something new.
What we want in life is something we generally feel in control of.
After all, it’s our choice. We are free to choose a Toyota or a Ford, to take up jogging, or to invest in the stockmarket.
What we like tends to be less examined.
We know we like strawberries, for example, or travelling, or laying in the sun.
But these are often discovered, rather than chosen. We try snowboarding, and we find that we enjoy it, so we add it to the list of things we know that we like.
The chance to do or to have something we like can be a great motivating factor.
“Eat your vegetables,” we may have been told as children, “And you get to have dessert.”
Doing something we enjoy has a kind of feedback loop: it brings us pleasure so we continue to engage in it, bringing us more pleasure.
Harnessing the energy of that loop and aligning it with what we want is what The Watermelon Principle is concerned with.
This is more than doing what we already like, and perhaps turning it into a career.
Just as we feel we have control over what we want, The Watermelon Principle contends that we are free to choose the things that we like.
If we control what we like, we can utilise the power and energy that comes from doing what we enjoy and channel it into bringing us what we really want in life.
If we enjoy what we do, and it brings us what we truly want, what more could we really ask for?
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