Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Why Chasing Happiness Is Making You MISERABLE?

4 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Chasing happiness as a constant goal backfires because you can't see it while you're in it. Like a mountain you're standing on, happiness only becomes visible in the rear-view mirror. Stop treating it as something to maintain and start recognizing it after the fact.

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And so happiness is one of those things where the reason I don't think it's a helpful goal to have is that it's not anything that's ever sustainable. And if you approach it with, I want to be happy, you're just going to constantly be living in this state of unhappiness and disappointment because you just can't ever realistically meet that expectation, at least not in a sustained way. Again, it's like I've gotten older, I've kind of You know, I like to use metaphors. I kind of see it as, you know, if you're, if you're, if you know, if you imagine like the mountain ranges, you know, if you're driving towards the mountain, you can see it. And if you're driving away from the mountain, you can see it in the rearview mirror, but you can't tell you're on a mountain or you can't see the mountain when you're on the mountain. And so happiness is one of those things where you can look back on your life and be like, oh, I was really happy then.