Getting a Hit From Optimizing Everything

I was having this conversation recently a about people who are obsessed with life hacking and optimizing everything. And it's funny, because those people, in my experience, are some of the most existentially unhappy people that i've met. People who try to optimize everything in this kind of utilitarian way end up really profoundly unhappy. Yo, it's the same thing as continuously pursuing a bitter hih. It's, i'm getting a hit from winning at particular thing, so i got to try and win at it all the time. But i need the hit because my base line is that lif fills fot meaningless,. cause iy don't actually have any real relationships, and ther i don't