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Nothing external satisfies us, Cameron Wenaus CEO Retreat Guru - The CEO Start Up Show

6 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Cameron Wenaus reflecting on a common human tendency to defer satisfaction to future external achievements (degrees, jobs, raises, houses). He argues that this ‘arriving’ mindset is a recurring, unfulfilled loop and that true contentment already exists — we are already 'there'.

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There's this tendency to kind of think, oh, it's going to get better just around the corner. Oh, when I close this deal, then it'll get better. Oh, when I get from high school and you think, oh, when I get to university, then it's going to work out. And then I'm in university, I'm like, no, actually, when I get a real job, then it's going to work out. And then when you get that job, you're like, actually, when I get that raise, then it's going to work. Or when I get a house and you're like, well, when I get a cottage and joke's on you, it's never going to work out. From that perspective of that, if you get that thing, then you'll finally arrive. And if I. If I look back at my history of my life retrospective, I look and see I've been playing this really weird mind game where I say, okay, once I get to that, and then, you know, and I've never arrived there. The truth is, is that you're already there, it's already worked out.