Rick Rubin

You spend, let's say you spend 20 years of your life working towards a goal that's going to solve everything.

And then you finally achieve what you've been trying to do for 20 years, toiling away.

I won't have any fun because I'm working for 20 years for this end.

And then you get that end and nothing changes.

That's when you get hopeless.

So it's not uncommon to see very successful artists who are very unhappy in life because they're working towards this, the thing that's going to make them feel better.

And it does not make them feel better.

I'm sure you've got to meet many very successful business people, billionaire people.

Very few of them are happy.

Very few.

And they've reached their, they've accomplished their dreams and are unhappy because we don't know what we want.

You know, we don't know what's going to make us happy.

We're trying to fill something that maybe can't be filled through material or cultural success, public success.

It's something else.

It's some internal thing.

Don't do things just because you think you're going to get something for it.

That's not why we do things.

Do what's interesting to you.

Follow what's interesting.

Don't worry about the outcome.