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#397 - Dr Benjamin Hardy - A High Achievers' Guide To Happiness

Modern Wisdom

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The Gap Will Never Satisfy the Problem It's Fueling

A lot of people get addicted to the gap as a motivating factor, because feelings of insufficiency can propel you forward. But achieving things is never going to actually fulfil the the problem that it's trying to satisfy. Wie: I'm not setting goals and trying to write these books in order to become a happy person. I just want to keep growing my own happiness. That's all i need to do. Being in the game doesn't shrink ambition. It actually just enables me to know that the ambition isn't going to actually make me happy. You should set goals becuse you're already happy.

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