Motivation fails when purpose is borrowed.

When purpose is inherited, motivation becomes unsustainable. When purpose is self-owned, motivation becomes unnecessary.

Motivation collapses the moment purpose is borrowed because it breaks the chain that makes effort self-propelling—its own kind of perpetuum mobile. When direction is imported rather than created, the system powering action becomes dependent on external validation, and any fluctuation in that external source immediately destabilizes the entire structure. What appears at first as discipline or ambition reveals itself over time as compliance, and compliance cannot carry weight for long.