run into or run from?

This morning, my Chief has given me a very inspiring quote.
I forgot the exact phrase because I left my note at the office, but more or less, it says "Do things because you need to not because you can do it".

The insight is that we have to do things because we want to do it, not because we are pushed and we can do it.
We must find our self-satisfaction on doing our job, we must build our self-motivation on doing our job.
Only then, we can achieve the best, for ourselves and for the company we work for.

Hearing that, I can not help but thinking about a book I’ve read quite sometime ago called "Bear Hunt: Earn Living by Doing What I Love" by Malcolm Mc Clean.
It’s quite funny though, because in the morning on my way to the office, somehow I’ve been thinking of some parts of the books which were the exact part that instantly remembered when my Chief told us the insight of the quote.

The part is in the Chapter 5 of the books, "Develop my millionaire mind", especially the part talks about the types and levels of millionaires.

The part talks about types of successful people, their characteristic and their motivations.
And how different kind of motivation determines how successful the people can be.

What was and is very-very interesting to me, is the differentiations between Enterpriser and Enterpreneur.
It says that Enterpreneur is most likely be far more successful than the Enterpriser type.
Because Enterpreneur is willing to take massive personal risk, often in the defiance of any logic, they have the tendency to reframe the word ‘failure’.
And as economic laws said, high risk high gain, the higher the risk, the higher potential of gain it will bring.

And the interesting part is what kind of motivations driving those two.

I simply call them "run into" and "run from".

Enterprisers have the "run into" motivation.
They set their goal, and they run their fastest to the goal.

Enterpreneurs have the "run from" motivation.
They are usually have experience of being marginalized in their early years.
These unpleasant experience become the drive, the dog that are chasing them their entire life to run their fastest, and run their fastest, and run their fastest.
No finish line, because there is no finish line since the beginning.
They only have their start line which is obviously moving steadily with their pace, kept shadowing them so that they always think that if they stopped, they will be back to the ground zero, the start line again.
So they keep running, and running, and running.

Well, that should’ve defined the levels’ difference between them and the risk they are willing to take, shouldn’t it?

So, are we the "run into" or the "run from" person?

(previously posted in Friendster on March 21st, 2007)