Arthur Brooks

It's craziness.

You know, 9 out of 10 times they fail.

Now, why are they successful?

Because economically, it's because temporarily they make you make progress, right?

But they ultimately fail because once you get to your goal, your goal weight, the reward is never getting to eat what you like ever again for the rest of your life.

Congratulations.

And then you get the arrival fallacy is what it comes down to.

So what you want in life is something where you can just make constant progress.

I want to be a better dad.

I want to be a better person.

I want to create more value with my work.

And there's no end to that.

I can't be like, well, I got to the best dad I can possibly be.

So that's all good.

No, I can always work to be a better husband.

I can always work to be a better friend.

I can always work to be a better citizen.

I can always work to love my country more.

I can always work to actually do something more important in my work and reach more people with the moral objectives that I have.

And that's what I need.