Dean Graziosi explains why chasing the next achievement keeps you stuck on a hedonic treadmill. Real joy, he argues, doesn't depend on what you own or accomplish next. It's something you can access right now, independent of outcomes.
What happens when we do get that thing that we think is going to make us happy? Well, we usually get it and we up the ante right away and we go, oh, well, look, there's 50 more mountains on the other side I want to climb that I didn't see before I got this. So I'm not happy again. I need to get that. Yeah. To get happy. Or you do get there and it's kind of like, this isn't as kind of as cool as I thought it was going to be. It's not really fulfilling me like I thought. It's something different than I thought it was going to be. But joy is a different thing because it's not predicated, it's not reliant on that outcome or that result or the attachment or the ownership and capture of that thing.
