The value-addition to a process, thought or deed through self-motivation, self-propulsion, self-compulsion, is what I call the self-pressure model. It is a model that requires no other inputs than attitude, determination and will-power to make it succeed. It's based on the assumption of the high (and invariably unrealised) potential of a human being. Its premise is a sense of purpose as an internal mechanism that works independent of outside forces (though not exclusive of outside stimulus).

I believe human beings are capable of climbing greater heights than they normally reach. They just need that little push, and while that push can be administered externally, this external impetus is nothing as to that which comes from within. This self-pressure is what causes stretch — the effort that can transform the merely competent to the outstanding.

It has been scientifically established that we use only 10 per cent of our brain. With self-pressure we would use more of it—obtain an extra dimension to the way we think and live. After all it is an additional input among human greats that has taken our civilisation to where it is today.