The speaker argues that fear of judgment keeps people from celebrating their wins. Without truly feeling your achievements, you can't appreciate them and just rush to the next thing. Learning to savor victories is the first step to a healthier relationship with success.
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Our society is not good at celebrating success. Look at how we demonize all the top earners, the top people in government, culture, records. Like, the bigger you get, the more that criticism comes out for no reason. And so you're like, oh, do I want that? And that's why most people have never genuinely celebrated their life. They have a birthday, they've had 50 of them. They've never genuinely celebrated and praised and felt and integrated life. If you never felt Life. How are you supposed to feel like the achievements matter? People have victories, but they never felt the victory. They're just on to the next battle, the next battle, the next battle, the next battle. So you have to teach people first to feel.