Motivation and Motive -- Part I

I must say, I'm beginning to like putting my (creative/philosophical/etc.) thoughts down on... well, not paper. I haven't been a faithful journaler (so I made up a word!) in the last 2 decades but the personal stuff still makes it there from time to time. However, there are so many thoughts and ideas and other stuff that I just never get round to writing them out somewhere. Then comes this plunge into blogging...

Now I'm not a writer, nor am I inclined to become one. (As you can tell, I digress way too much...) I had a lot of trouble writing papers in college. Papers took me almost forever to write and it wasn't until my Junior year that I rushed through writing one of my papers, which incidentally earned my highest paper grade ever, and learned that the art of writing papers was a creative blast, full of BS. Apparently my points go through in some sort of an organized way though.

Anyway, it was almost a sad day when I realized that I type much faster than I write. The notes I took at the last business seminar I attended were not in my usual "short-hand" on paper but completely electronically on this laptop. These notes were longer since I couldn't quite condense them the way I do with paper notes, yet I was still rather impressed at how much information my humble little fingers managed to squeeze in. (Perhaps even a little more than if I had hand-written them?)

So what's my motivation for using the laptop and producing electronic notes? For one, like I said, I type faster than I write nowadays. (Probably won't help with the arthritic-prone hands...) For another, I don't have to re-copy my notes for them to be reproduced legibly and already deciphered.

What's my motive? So that I can pass these notes down to people we train/mentor in business. So that I can go back to these notes later and remember what I learned (and re-learn them!).

There's a bigger question than my motivation or motive for doing something like that: What's the difference between Motivation and Motive?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you chew on that one for a couple of days before I address it. And I will likely launch off into a dozen tangents along the way... My "creative" time's up for today, so A bientot!