Success isn't a destination you reach and stop. The speaker argues that obsessing over arrival—waiting to enjoy life until you hit a milestone—makes people quit too early or defer happiness forever. Real success is the ongoing work itself, not some final state.
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Not only does success not happen overnight, but success is not a destination. Like, I think that's why most individuals stop, or even you and I occasionally have the moment we think we should stop, or we think we might stop. Why? Well, because we are obsessed, and I say we like collective human beings. In my experience, we are obsessed with the idea of arrival, that we think if we could get there, and if I can get there faster than you, then I could stop quicker than you, which means I could have more time to do what I want, because I don't do what I want now. Therefore, if I could get to the place I could do what I want, then I would finally have arrived. So we call that success. We call the ability to stop doing the things that are necessary, even if we enjoy them.