The Ego Is the Root of Your Happiness

The ego says, oh, i can feel better about myself if i have a nobel price in order to get ok. So that means that the nobel prize will bring me happiness. Now we've attached happiness to your outside outcome, then what we also do is we see your plan. Oh, so then in order to be a happy and win a nobell prize, i have to be a researcher. So let's plan the next forty years and plan on research and grinding  and then we'll get our noba prize, and then we'll be happy, and then the ego will be satisfied. Does that make sense? Yes, isn't this? But then that's