Mark Manson

I mean, it's astounding the level of success.

And yet I'm like, I'm feeling lost.

And what it took me a little while to realize is that, you know,

once you achieve the, probably the quickest way to kill a dream is to achieve it.

Cause once you've achieved it and you wake up the next day and you're still the smelly, insecure guy that you were the day before you achieved it.

And you still have to take out the trash in the morning and you still have a stupid argument with your wife about something.

And you still are worried about, you know, what your friends think of you.

You realize that

that, okay, this thing that I've been chasing for decades, it didn't actually change anything.

It didn't fix anything.

All of my problems are still the same.

And that is, I think there's just this feeling of loss of like, I don't know what to do anymore.

Like this is, I literally did the best thing I knew how to do in this world and it didn't fix my problems.

And it's interesting because as time went on,

I think the worst part about the altitude sickness is that you don't really feel at liberty to tell people, right?

So it's like when you go see friends and family, everybody's like, oh my God, this is amazing.

Yeah, nobody wants to hear you cry about it.

And so you feel like you kind of have to keep up appearances of like, oh yeah, it's amazing.

Things are great.

I'm so excited.