Positive emotions like fame and sensory pleasures can pull you away from your actual goals. The speaker explores how these distractions work and why staying focused on what matters is harder than it seems.
You have a goal on the mind, what you want to achieve. You start walking, you start doing your your jobs and your obligations. But along this way you are meeting a distraction which is giving you a lot of positive emotions. Because you are in that average state of the mind, that overall, let's say normal state of the mind. Now, if it takes you out of the average of being positive, it's very easy for us that we get attached to these type of feelings. So what ultimately means you're going to lose track of your goal? Because you would prefer right now to spend more time with all of these things that give you positive emotions. Can you give an example of one of these positive emotions or a situation that someone might have Positive emotions? For example, let's take a very nice one, Fame. Yes, you have a goal in the mind, what you want to achieve. But along this way you feel there is that word of fame. And so what does it mean? It means you are getting the views, you're getting the sight of different people, and now you are encountering something that you haven't planned about it before, but now that you meet it and now that you feel it, that it's this type of fame that you could get from the people. Well, now the question still is if you can stick to your initial plan or not, or is the fame going to move in front of all of this and it's not your mission anymore that was important to you, but now suddenly you are replacing your initial goal with something that gave you positive emotions along this way. Right. So the positive emotion is that the first thing that could be a hindrance for you? I definitely think it is something that you need to consider as a human. If you walk through this lifetime and want to build something which is out of the ordinary, you are 100% going to meet various positive emotions. And one of them is just that example that I brought right now. But it can also be very simple things that your eyes are catching the attraction too quickly, about things that look beautiful, about things around you, that taste too great, that smell too good, advertising being around to lose your awareness.
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