Happiness is being satisfied with what you have.
Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose.
Most people, myself included think of someone as successful when they win a game, whatever game they play. However that is measuring success and happiness on external circumstances.
As we have no control of external circumstances, true happiness and success are internal.
The real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don’t even play the game, who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness, they need nothing from anybody else.
The problem with getting good at a game, especially one with big rewards, is you continue playing it long after you should have outgrown it.
Survival and replication drive put us on the work treadmill. Hedonic adaptation keeps us there. The trick is knowing when to jump off and play instead.
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