Dr. Benjamin Hardy
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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And so like how I learned it from Dan is ideals are like the horizon in the desert.
Like you can see them out there and like, but every time you take a few steps forward, the horizon keeps going.
And in America, we're actually trained to always be pursuing happiness.
That's even in the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And so we're very big on ideals in America, which is good.
Like, it's good to have ideals.
It's good to be idealistic.
There's nothing wrong with ideals.
The problem is, is that they're immaterial.
Like, I think a definition of ideal is whatever you believe is perfection.
So when you're in the gap, you're literally measuring yourself against your view of perfection.
But back to the idea of the horizon, that view is never-endingly changing.
My former self would have felt like it was perfection just to get a book deal.
But then once I got there, the ideal changed.
The horizon moved.
And so if you're always measuring yourself against a moving target, and also a moving target that by definition is unreachable,
You can't actually reach an ideal.
It's an ideal.
But if you're always measuring yourself against it, then you never feel like you've moved anywhere.
And that's actually why we wrote the book is because high achievers by nature have huge ideals, but they also usually measure themselves against them.
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