The Things that Drive us Solo Episode

I am slightly obsessed with what people do and why they do this.  Partly this relates to artistic endeavours.  Not just where people get their inspiration from but where do they get their motivation from,  how do they sustain it and how on a practical level do they do things.
This is why I started my podcast series the Things that Drive Us which explores exactly this.
Where it gets really interesting for me at least is the ethic, moral and philosophical drivers behind what and how people do things and it is always interesting to me when these intersect with what they actually produce.  So for example with Alistair Gordon the artists who talked very candidly about his faith and how this comes out in his art, and Matthew Pennington of Profound Decision and how his sense of fairness in relation to the people who volunteer for his events drives how he sets the whole things up.
I suppose one of the reasons I am interested in this, is that I wonder the same question quite frequently about myself.  What is it that drives me?  What is it that drives you? 
Answering this question or at least exploring this question seems to me one of the fundamentals of human existence.  Working out what your drivers are,  what your purpose and centre is and tying what you do as closely as possible to this, seems to me one of the prime goals of existence.

So I batter around the internet and bookshops looking at Stoic philosophy, Buddhism, mindfulness, Christianity, Islam and the schools of therapy and am struck by the similarities between them.  How often conscience and the a core purpose is the main thread of all of these things. 

Theory is all very well and interesting but of course life is tricky so what really interests me is how people, different people manifest this, channel it into their life.  How do people realise their drives?

Of course much more difficult is once you have worked out what they are, to act on them.
And acting on them is both easier and more difficult than you think.  These drivers are not static either,  changes in life, in perspective, in your needs and the needs of those around you can cause them to shift. 

Do you agree? How are you going to respond to yours?