Everyone wants to be happy.
It injects hope without making you roll your eyes.
It’s similar to when someone challenges younotto think of a white bear, just for a minute.
What’s on your mind right now?
That’s something you hear all the time in business schools.
And he’d done ithe was forty-two, so he was right on target.
But he was also divorced and had health problems.
And his kids didn’t talk to him anymore.'
Glory, ego, and pride don’t necessarily bring happiness and fulfilment.
Worse yet, they may produce outcomes that you hadn’t expected.
The tragic unintended consequence was that they didn’t make it back down alive.
That’s not to say that you shouldn’t dream big.
Is your goal going to make you more enviable, orsomething that you’re really curious and excited about?
Oliver Burkeman also write the weekly column,This column will change your life, atThe Guardian.
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