Dan Martell explains why he doesn't need what he wants. His happiness doesn't depend on achieving his desires. He values freedom, like walking in the woods, and credits his past scarcity for his gratitude toward what he has now.
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And there's this great quote that says, "I don't need what I want." So like, that's my philosophy in life. Like, I am incredibly driven and I have desires, but I also have zero care if they come true or not, meaning that I can want things, but I don't need them. I don't need any of that stuff to be happy. Like, I'm happy being free to walk in the woods because I've not had freedom. Yes, dude. That makes sense. So I just got, I got blessed and I mean this, like where I came from and who in the life I get, like, I just have so much gratitude regardless of all the kind of like wealth that I've created because I just know what it's like to not have any of it. So in many ways, I'm super grateful that I went through what I did. Jason Gaynor, which we met at MMT, no pressure, no diamonds. He says this often, like, I'm who I am because I went through that and I wouldn't change a thing. Zero.