In the preceding pages, I’ve argued that the type of conventional success we spend so much time and energy chasing—money, fame, relevance, busyness, followers—isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It is not that we shouldn’t ever strive. It is that we should spend more time and energy focusing on the deep, internal foundation—the ground—from which any and all striving emerges. Once we do this, our definition of success changes, and so does the texture of our drive to succeed and the satisfaction of experiencing it. We still have the chance to reach great heights, but we do so from a more solid
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