Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

3 Motivations EXPLAINED: Fame, Fortune, or Foundation? #shorts

26 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, Tommy Dobczyk explains that people are generally driven by three core motivations when choosing a career or path: fame (the desire for recognition), fortune (the pursuit of financial reward), and foundation (a deeper sense of purpose or need). He recounts learning this framework during his time in nursing school and supports it with a survey he conducted of over 1,000 individuals, noting that every respondent’s primary motivation aligned with one of these three categories.

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What you're saying. Well, people are motivated by 3 things typically. I learned this when I was in nursing school, but, um, and, and, and it, it was what motivated people to go into nursing school. People went into nursing school to either become famous, become fortune, like money, or, or to, or to have foundation. Like they, they felt the need to do it. Like, so these were the 3 things that drew people. Every— I interviewed over 1,000 people on a on a survey one time about it, and every single one of them led to one of those 3 things.