You Know You're Conditioned to Move the Goal Post on Yourself and You'll Never Really Enjoy It

Ryan Holiday wrote a great piece last week on sort of happiness and he talks about how when you achieve something you'll automatically move the goal post on yourself. Most of us will actually go beyond that and do things we thought we wanted in theory and have to learn the hard way that we don't want them. I think sometimes we make these purchases like somebody might earn a lot of money for the first time and then they go out and spend a lot of it on a really nice carlike okay well room roomYou got a nice car sitting at the same stoplight with everybody else? It just doesn't often provide that euphoric sort of you know happiness that you think it's going to be