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BRIBE ME!
<p>Maybe that's what I need.</p><p>You heard me; Bribe me.<br/></p><p>Tell me there's a reward waiting at the end, and suddenly I am interested. Give me something to look forward to, and watch how quickly I become serious.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>A good grade. Money. Recognition. A compliment. A promotion. A certificate. A “well done.” Even something as simple as, “After this, you can rest.”</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, I wonder.. maybe the reason we struggle to take certain things seriously is because we cannot see what we're getting from them.</p><p>Maybe we are not lazy. Maybe we are simply unconvinced. Maybe.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Because effort feels reasonable when reward is attached. Nahh, I didn’t lie there.</p><p>But what happens when there isn't one?<br/></p><p>What happens when you study and nobody applauds?</p><p>When you do the right thing and nobody notices?</p><p>When you love someone well and they don't love you back?</p><p>When you build something quietly and there is no audience?</p><p>When you keep showing up, and the results seem to have misplaced your address?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will we still do it?</p><p><br/></p><p>That's where things get interesting. Because rewards are wonderful. They make effort feel visible. They remind us that something is happening.</p><p><br/></p><p>But they can also become dangerous when we begin to believe that everything worth doing must immediately pay us back.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some things don't. At least, not immediately.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes the reward is delayed. Sometimes it's invisible. Sometimes the reward is simply becoming the kind of person who can be trusted with the thing you're asking for.</p><p><br/></p><p>And sometimes… there may be no obvious reward at all.</p><p><br/></p><p>So, i think the real question isn't:</p><p>“What do I get if I do this?”</p><p><br/></p><p>I think it is:</p><p>“Would I still do this if nobody promised me anything?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Ouch.</p><p>I don't know. I'm still negotiating with myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>So for now, BRIBE ME.</p><p><br/></p><p>But maybe, just maybe, I should also learn how to show up when there is nothing on the table.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because eventually, life will ask me to do some of its most important work…</p><p>…without offering me a prize for it.</p><p><br/></p>
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