What really makes me tick?

• Food -- cooking and eating and, sharing that, and using food as a tool for health - without sacrificing taste and enjoyment
• Photography -- I find it an easy way to express ideas I'm thinking about, and I lose myself in it when I'm rshooting
• Learning new things, because knowledge has inherent value
• Developing new ideas, and starting new things from them, is its own reward for me
• Personal areas of interest include
  • History
  • Politics
  • How people make new things

The rewards that motivate me include, in order

1. Credibility, authority and prestige
2. Self-expression
3. A feeling of uniqueness