The Resilient Founder

10The Hidden Land of Desires and Motivations

A creative man has no choice. He may come across his supreme task almost accidentally. But once the issue is joined, his task proves to be at the same time intimately related to his most personal conflicts, to his superior selective perception, and to the stubbornness of his one-way will; he must court sickness, failure, or insanity in order to test the alternative whether the established world will crush him, or whether he will disestablish a sector of this world's outworn fundaments and make place for a new one.

– Erik H. Erickson, psychologist

MEET YOUR ID

All the basics that we need – food, sleep, bodily needs, and demands, including our sexual drive, come from our id. When you are having a good day, the desires have been satiated. The id is happy and content. Often, the id the first one inside us to acknowledge a good day.

Id is where our impulses, desires, competing forces, and contradictions coexist; all these exist side by side in this bubble called id. Our id does not offer value judgments or moralistic views of what is right and wrong. It just asks for what it needs – immediately and bluntly. And it wants everything here and now. A baby is filled with id, as a delightful ball of flesh, cute and driven by instinctual needs of food, sleep, and a wet diaper. When we grow up, the id manifests itself in a storm of desires – sometimes essential needs, other times mindless addictions.

Once the basic desires are met, we inch ...