Hannah Hammond explains why achieving a goal brings only a brief high before your mind dampens the feeling, sending you chasing the next bigger goal. People who feel truly fulfilled don't aggressively chase excellence. Genuine passion should drive you, not the promise of money.
The idea would make you high for 10 years. From 20 to 26, you get excited, you get, oh my God, I can't wait for that day, the dream. And then you finally get what you want, you're high for 2 days. Your unconscious mind knows that when you finally get what you want, it will not be as exciting as talking about it.
But then it's usually followed by depression and anxiety of like, now what do I do? And that's why we always end up setting bigger goals. And then we have this issue of being accomplished to success because you're just always kind of chasing the next thing. The problem with fulfillment in excellence is people think that in order to achieve fulfillment, they have to achieve excellence. But it's actually inverse. Like usually people that are very fulfilled, they don't have as big of a desire for excellence.
If you need applause for what you're doing, you're, you're going to miss some of this. In attempting it, they want to get it all from one place. They hear these stupid statements like find your passion and go make money. You know what I'm saying? And my opinion is like, go be passionate. And if it makes you money, that's great. But also just be a passionate person in what it is that you do.