I'm always interested in thinking about the forces that drove Shakespeare to accomplish what he did. Clearly, there would have to have been several of them. First, it's obvious that he was endowed with the entrepreneurial spirit and was not averse to earning money. It's also clear that he was a believer in the powers of drama and poetry (not necessarily in that order, in my opinion), and that he wrote in such a way as to propagate thought in as many ways as possible. But it's starting to occur to me more and more that one of his great motivators was a desire to learn. His reading, research and use of sources indicate a strong belief in scholarship, certainly, but it's not often stated as one of the primary objectives of his writing. The meticulousness of detail in his work shows it. And even though it's impossible to prove anything of this nature, the evidence certainly points that way. I also believe that his career is unmatched as a success story, and we should be influenced by his entrepreneurial spirit, his altruism, his thirst for knowledge, and the use he made of them through his creativity. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that his example is the best one we have.