Nick Bare

that you're working towards.

Maybe it is a fitness goal.

Maybe you want to lose 30 pounds.

Maybe you want to run a sub three hour marathon.

Maybe you want to do your first Ironman or first 100 mile ultra marathon.

Maybe it's a job promotion that you want to achieve or a business you want to build.

The reason that it feels so good to work towards those things and then achieve it is because of the struggle.

Without the struggle,

in just achievement, we actually can't experience satisfaction.

You need the struggle in between saying, I want to go pursue this and then achieving it.

In between, we need, we require the struggle to actually experience satisfaction.

But what happens when we actually achieve the thing

is that we experience satisfaction and then satisfaction dissipates.

It's really hard to maintain satisfaction.

So we have to keep working on it and towards it.

And if we don't have purpose and we don't have any enjoyment, but we just have satisfaction, you're going to end up on this continuous loop, this hamster wheel,

That is being driven by dopamine of needing to constantly achieve and achieve and achieve to actually feel anything.

You need purpose.

You need meaning.

But we also need struggle and we need goals and we need to work towards something.