Perhaps a question that deserves to be addressed, is how emotion can be separated from any task that we're motivated to complete. I suppose you could say that we're not always driven by fierce, lively passions - but I think it's true that any sort of incentive is going to be established on at least some degree of emotion. A lack of emotion simply leads to a lack of conviction and resolve, which might culminate in apathy.

Personally, I find it difficult to see something through until the end, unless I have a firm desire to complete it. Usually, this desire has to be sustained by some kind of emotion. There are many things that I could potentially be interested in, but in order to become perpetually attracted to particular things instead of others, I need to be able to attach some sort of emotional incentive to them.

This is particularly true for my education. It's difficult to receive enthusiasm from the abstract concepts of 'money' and 'job' when you enjoy the contentment provided by a middle-class background. I have to be willing to learn things that I find to be truly nourishing; otherwise, I'll never be consistently induced to study. On the other hand, it'd be a falsehood to boast that I'm one of those rare few who experience an almost religious dedication to knowledge and achievement; periods of laziness are just unavoidable.

So I guess you could say that I'm balanced. I undertake things, but always with a steady, perhaps slightly subdued, amount of emotion. Otherwise, I'm bored and disengaged.