Comment by subpixel
5 hours ago
In my experience what matters most is understanding your goals, or lacking clear goals, what you want and enjoy. It’s remarkably easy to latch onto goals that seem like great ideas but ultimately don’t align to your own happiness.
That’s not to knock ambition, but to frame it in the most practical terms. How will success actually and specifically benefit you?
Ron's second law: the hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
> It’s remarkably easy to latch onto goals that seem like great ideas but ultimately don’t align to your own happiness
I wonder if the whole idea of goals and ambition being able to deliver happiness is wrong. Certainly whenever I’ve set a goal and achieve it nothing much changes in how I feel about life because I was hoping for too much and so must just find a new goal.