What drives people to work?

As we know everybody has to work on this planet. And by that, we can divide people into two groups: hardworking one and lazy one.  But what's the difference between them?  The answer to this question can be also obtained from another question: is it the result of the work or the work itself (I mean interest here) that drives us to work?

 

When we were kids, we don't have to worry about work (except learning if it can be taken as a kind of work). But we played a lot, running in the yard chasing a cat, fly a kite, play hide and find, etc. Actually playing is also a kind of work because we have to pay attention, burn our energy, focus. The most important thing is that we like this kind of work. We are driven by pure interest; We are eager to participate in it.

 

However, when we grew up to the age that we have to make a living by ourselves, things changed. The basic fact is that if we don't work we will face hunger. We work because we have to.

 

So far we have talked about 2 factors that lead us to do something if the life. Generally speaking the former one bring us fun and the later one makes us suffer. But the thing we care here is that which one makes us work harder?

 

Well if one is purely driven by interest, then he/she may not be able to focus on one problem because there are too many things in this planet that interests us. Or we can say it makes us lazy on one thing that we are working on and has the largest chance to give some practical result. On the other hand, if some one is a hundred percent forced by the result (survive, honor) of the work, the suffer leads to fear, fear leads to lazy.

 

So it seems that we'd better combine them together, which makes us feel less empty. Let's see.