But grgdai, if you don't have any desires and if you don't want anything, how do you go about doing the things you do in life, like how did you decide the career that you are in. What I am trying to say is what motivates you if you don't want anything in life?

Here's the thing. When you are born as a human there are few things that you have to take for granted. It is like properties of matter. Like gravitation pulls everything back to earth, when you are born your basic necessity is to breathe, eat and drink.

Even if you renounce everything in life you cannot renounce breathing, eating and drinking. As long as you can have access to those three things you can be in a state of peace. That being said, most people have access to the three things but constantly desire more things to make life easier or enjoyable.

As a minimalistic human being close to being an animal those are the things of bare necessity. If you look at the animal world. Desire for more posessions does not exist. A lioness only kills when she is hungry or has to feed her cubs. On top of basic breathing, drinking and eating there is a genetic need to mate which comes only after the first three needs are met.

What is the difference between the primitive human being and the civilized human being, you might ask. The major underlying difference between the two is organized greed. The civilized man has learnt to organize his greed so that he lives to reach his goal of possessing more. He then quantified his greed by creating the unit of greed - money. He simply wants more of everything, and his greed never ends. Consequently greed has become the root of all evil. Greed for more food, more drinks, more sex, more of everything. All the negative attributes that exist in today's world is due to greed for more than what is needed.

In order to be truly happy one has to be part of the ecosystem. Part of the planet earth co-existing with the surroundings.

We human beings have far surpassed the minimalistic animal stage and today are born into families with access to a lot more than minimalistic posessions, yet the greed lives on. When people read about buddhism they read about not having any desires. But it does not necessarily mean you have to give up everything you have. You can have everything you were born into but just not poliferate the disease of greed. That will truly free you from emotions of dissatisfaction or perceived failure because you simply are ok where you are at and what the world gives you.

Career. A means to possess more. You strive to do things which may make your life easier but ultimately realize that is just a means to an end. As long as you can be content with the way things are, not having a great career like your friends is not the end of the world. Remember only you can make yourself miserable. You are a unique being and you don't have to compare yourself to anyone else to spoil your own mood! With this kind of awareness, you do not have a burden of preconceived desires you are carrying in your mind, possibly making you perform less than your true potentials.

This is my opinion. Feel free to disagree.