Chase Fisher argues young ambitious people mistake temporary highs like awards and partying for real happiness. He says lasting fulfillment comes from steady productivity and progress, not fleeting euphoria, and points to Alex Becker as someone who understands that contentment doesn't require constant excitement.
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You're mega ambitious. Like, you're young. You want to do everything. You want to make millions of dollars. You will literally never be happy, or at least in the way you currently determine happiness. Most people confuse happiness with euphoria. Euphorium is your first kiss. It's the award you won after six years of work. People chase this feeling and confuse it with happiness. So every night they go out, they're down in fucking Brickell, Miami, in a club, getting drunk every night, just trying to chase happiness, Let go a little for them to get some dopamine, but eventually send themselves further down than their actual base level that they were at before. So understanding how to be happy means actually lowering what you think of happiness right now. If you wake up, you're fine. You make some money. You don't absolutely hate life every single day, you're happy. I saw this from Alex Becker. He's made, like, hundreds of millions of dollars. But people are just so unbelievably ungrateful that they cannot see this. And then they again, they send themselves further down instead of just prioritizing things that would bring them longer happiness, longer fulfillment, and actually help them achieve their goals. Until you redefine happ from what everybody else thinks happiness is to what you think happiness is, which should be productivity, which should be making progress, which should be creating and building, you won't be happy.
