Why do people feel a need for accomplishment?

[retrodoctor]

Because without accomplishing things, you can't advance as a person or overall, as a race. This seems like a very elementary level question from a psychology book.

 

[Ritsuki]

I would say that people don't feel the need for accomplishement, they accomplish things to feel needed.

 

[The Milkman]

Because without accomplishing things, you can't advance as a person or overall, as a race. This seems like a very elementary level question from a psychology book.

Isnt it the most basic questions that are the hardest to answer? The ones that invoke the most thought, the ones that cant ever be truely known? I asked it to get a better grasp of thoughts of our fellow Tempers.

I would say that people don't feel the need for accomplishement, they accomplish things to feel needed.

I like this answer the most, I never thought it would be the other way around, and it also makes quite a bit of sense. but it also brings up the question of why do we need to feel needed. Still, I like it

 

[Depravo]

And for the record, an ant is an insect...not an animal. ;P

'Insect' is a class within the Animalia kingdom.

http://en.wikipedia...._classification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal#Etymology

 

[emigre]

To show off.

emigre B.A.

 

[Cyan]

Laziness is also a good source of improvement.
To be even more lazy, human create tools to do things more easily (remote for TV because it was annoying to get up each time to change the volume!)

I can put a loooot of efforts to create (develop) tools/programs to make my life easier.

 

[FAST6191]

I think I will have to side with several others- in the dim and distant something became a tool user, something made a slightly better tool and was thus less likely to starve, it probably got to a point where things were doing OK but then neurotransmitters get involved for building stuff (similar logic to sex drive being amped all the way up despite it being expensive) meaning better tools get made and a nice feedback loop occurs including increased brain capacity. Fast forward a few million years and new widgets are a way of life, I might have to go a bit further to reconcile that with creation of art and such like but I do not imagine it will be that hard.
Likewise the above might be a tiny oversimplification and I am not sure of timeframes (it might have been the neurotransmitter induced feedback loop appeared way early on instead) not to mention the concept of meta invention (society, farming and such) also playing a huge role.

How it would go from there now laws of the jungle are not quite so applicable is the subject of endless debate although I doubt stagnation will be it (indeed thumbs are larger and there is the whole brown fat thing if you can be bothered to untangle the nonsense from it).

Basically biology and evolution of it.

 

[Just Another Gamer]

I thought it was to boost one's ego so they can shove it into your face and make you feel like shit.

 

[narutofan777]

people get things done for many reasons: for money, for loved ones, to save lives, and such.

 

[Icealote]

Well I thought it was because when people look up your stats, they get to see how many bronze, silver, gold, platinum trophies you have achieved in life.


I see its from our parents that push us to reach a goal (from an Asian background, its mother effin tough). It's just a life cycle of it. From saying mummy or daddy first, to taking our first baby steps, we are always going forward naturally even if our minds aren't (or in some cases our bodies).

My greatest accomplishment is grabbing a tv remote with my toes without leaving the couch after cramping my toe muscles many times