Vanilla, I love your last two posts. They brought me useful insight. I am sorry if I am being dense but could you clarify one thing. It seems determination is a component of self determination. Self Determination is determination focused on ones self. Determination will drive Self Determination but other motivations decide the direction of action. Is this true? If this is true, what are the other motivations?
Mu, self determination means that the drive is from an internal locus of control. It means managing ones own state to achieve.
A clever mind uses the adage from 12 steps, God (higher power) grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. We know that some things are not within our gift to have self determination and therefore we ask our higher power to provide the determination. That is internal vs external locus of control.
Self determination to me derives from the self in a unique combination of physiology, thought and belief. This results in focused action from a state of preparedness and to me this isn't driving of the self to action but the source of it. We need written goals to assist us otherwise no matter how determined we could be heading in the wrong direction.
I think an aware person uses external drivers to provide determination as well as internal ones. What it seems to me is you are learning how to make your state optimal to drive you to action.
For instance suppose the thought of a gold medal at the Olympics was a determinant, having a child, visiting the Andes, learning to dance. These are external motivators. Reward yourself with a new laptop if you pass an exam and so forth. A combination of drivers from the self and external.
Determination doesn't drive self determination, one is a sub set of the other, a little like genus and species in categorizing.
Thus it is the source to me not the destination if that makes sense?
My thinking
V
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. V 64, WAW
