Jim Kwik argues that satisfaction comes from becoming the person who achieves the goal, not from the goal itself. You see someone's $1 million or published book but miss the daily habits that got them there. Self-limiting beliefs like "I'm not smart" block the transformation required to reach your outcome.
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It's interesting also that knowing that when people show up, people don't see the work that goes on before. Usually they see at the end result what people share, what they have, but they don't really see what they do. It's kind of like, it's not the goal of making $1 million or, you know, whatever it happens to be. The real satisfaction comes from who you have to be in order to be able to create that wealth. Yeah. And the wealth could be in any area. So if you wanna be able to, let's say, share Working Backwards, your knowledge with people, maybe you're a coach or you wanna write a book, you have to have that knowledge. In order to have that knowledge, maybe the doing is reading every day. But then if their being is like, oh, I'm not a good reader, my being is I'm not that smart, that could keep you from going along that success track.