The Hamster Wheel of Temporary Success

The author Adam Adler says that when you approach life as a sequence of milestones to be achieved, you exist in a state of near continuous failure. One of the reasons that so many of us struggle with our jobs or our job titles is because we just don't feel like it's enough. So if your value is in what you do, then at best all you're going to be doing is running on the hamster wheel of temporary success and trying to avoid failure Because we treat it as permanent, as something that's irredeemable.