Sheridan Nygaard
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181 appearances
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first heard Oct 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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But then we're also ensuring that all of the ingredients that we use are fresh and healthy. We know exactly what we're eating every day. One big reason that I'm really motivated for both physical activity and this healthy eating lifestyle is I had a grandma who was not motivated to do these things. She was motivated by a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper and like candy and sweets.
And then she had a very sedentary lifestyle and she had heart disease at the end of her life, actually started pretty early on. And then when she got COVID, she had no chance of fighting COVID off. So she passed away of COVID, mostly due to the underlying heart disease condition.
And I just saw the way that her lifespan, the way that her life turned out in the end, I was highly motivated to make sure that I wasn't stuck in a chair, only watching TV. I know that maybe me having healthier habits now might not make me necessarily live longer, but I'll have more time. help in my later years, I will be able to fully enjoy those later years.
It might not save me time, but it might make that time more enjoyable. So I'm just motivated to be able to live my life to the fullest extent. If I want to go hiking up a mountain, I want to know that my body can take me there. If I want to go walk in Italy for six hours, I want to know that I am in a physical place to be able to do that. So I'm more motivated by life experiences.
I know that other people might be more motivated by like money or like they might be motivated by family or all of these things I think can motivate you in little ways. But I think each of us have one thing that really puts us in that position of I'm actually going to do this every day or I'm going to do this every other day.
Yeah, I think that's exactly what we need to frame it as, is what do you want? Yeah, what do you hope for?
I don't know if I can speak for every young person, but I think that there was a shift for a lot of us from that motivated by work to work and make money and then reinvest in your family and all of that. I think that me, I am less motivated to work. I do not have a dream job. I do not dream of work. I dream of life. I am motivated by life experiences.
And that can be, I mean, traveling, like we talked about, which I do think there is a difference between traveling and vacationing. I think vacationing is sitting on a beach somewhere. And I think people are more excited to...
People that are worried about the stress don't necessarily want to travel because that can be overwhelming to visit several countries or whatever versus just going to Florida and sitting on a beach is maybe a little bit easier.
But I'm more motivated to travel and have those life experiences outside of my own because that's what I really feels like makes up the meat and potatoes of life is learning about other people, trying new foods, being immersed in other cultures. And then also when I come home, it makes me feel more in touch with the culture and the things that we have to offer here in the US.
Each individual state, I think, has some really beautiful, crazy things to offer if you really give it some time. I am motivated to work in a field that I feel passionate about. So public health really lights my soul on fire. I don't think I would be as good at any of the work that I do if I didn't care about what I do.
And so I'm really motivated to not waste any minute of my life doing something I don't want to be doing if I don't have to, unless I really see some value out of it. And I think that might play into motivation in general is,
What are the barriers that people perceive to being motivated like is, is the time commitment, a barrier and maybe this isn't why you're as motivated or does it seem too hard like you said earlier, Stan, or does it, and I think that might have to do. with people's values and perceptions in general. So it is a really deeply personal thing. But I do think that there is a generational difference.
I don't think we're as motivated for the white picket fence. I think we're more motivated by those life experiences, spending time with family, spending time with friends, like hiking, doing those things that you won't get to do when you're 70 plus. I think that I'm really motivated to do that now. Even if it means I can't save up as much to buy a house, I'd rather do that now.
I think it'll be interesting to maybe see other people's perspectives on what motivates them, maybe what keeps them from being motivated. Like I think we talked about the scale earlier and you see that five pounds. I think that might be a short term motivation versus what is going to long term motivate you to keep those five pounds off. Because you might do that.
You might work out for a week and say that's enough of that. So I think it's interesting to think about like so many different levels of motivation in so many different contexts, what it can mean for different people. And especially in healthcare with the interventions that we cook up and we think about,
I think that we maybe need to think about are people even motivated to partake in these interventions? Are people even motivated to follow through with the protocol? That kind of thing. And I think that it's just something to keep in the back of our minds because public health is really about people.
It's really about motivating people to care about the things that we all care about in public health. So I think it's a really important topic, but it's just, it's really hard to put a your finger on the pulse of exactly what motivates people because it's so specific to what your individual values are. So motivating a population is just really a task.
That's what we do here. I know.
Yeah.
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