Those who are most focused on reaching some external barometer of success are often the same people who struggle most to enjoy it. That’s because they’ll always crave more. More money. More fame. More medals. More followers. As discussed earlier in this book, once we become passionate about something, our biology makes it nearly impossible for us to feel content, and our psychology only further attaches us to the pursuit. It becomes easy to get sucked into a vicious cycle. “Vicious,” because eventually we’ll experience a negative result. And when we do—well, you don’t need us to tell you how
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