Benedict realized that we’re all seeking happiness. That’s the capital G Goal underlying all our actions. It drives scarcity brain. It drives the scarcity loop. But our common tragedy isn’t that we can’t find happiness. It’s that we look for it in all the wrong places. We look for it—as Benedict noticed in Rome—in material possessions, power and respect, or fleeting pleasures like food and drink. We fall into a scarcity loop believing that this time the slot machine symbols will align and we’ll score a permanent win.
