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Andrew East on the Danger of Only Focusing on What’s Missing

17 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, Andrew East acknowledges the value of having personal and professional ambitions, describing them as noble pursuits. He then warns against fixating on the gap between one's current state and unachieved goals, arguing that such self‑measurement becomes a form of torment that detracts from progress and well‑being.

You may have ambitions in your personal life or in your professional life or whatever genre of your life that you're seeking, that you're striving after, working towards. And that's great to have. I think it's noble to have ambitions like that. But don't get caught up in the gap that still exists between where you are and the ambitions that you have yet to achieve. That's like torment to only measure yourself in what you have not yet done.