happiness is being satisfied with what you have success comes from dissatisfaction is success worth it then

oof i'm not sure that statement is true anymore like i made that statement a long time ago

and a lot of these things are just notes to myself and they're highly contextual they come in the

moment they leave in the moment.

Happiness, okay, so very complicated topic, but I always like the Socrates story where he goes into the marketplace and they show him all these luxuries and fineries. And he says,

how many things there are in this world that I do not want? And that's a form of freedom.

So not wanting something is as good as having it.

In the old story with Alexander Dionysius, right, Alexander goes out and conquers the world and

he meets Dionysius who's living in a barrel. And Dionysius says, get out of the way. You're

blocking my son. And Alexander says, oh, how I wish I, you know, could be like Dionysius in the next life and Dionysius says, that's a difference. I don't wish that I could, sorry, Diogenes, Diogenes. Diogenes says I don't wish to be

Alexander. So two paths to happiness and one path is for success. You get what you want. You

satisfy your material needs or like Diogenes, you just don't want it in the first place. And I'm not sure which

one is more valid. And it also depends what you define success. If the end goal is happiness,

then why not cut to the chase and just go straight for it? Does being happy make you less successful?

That is a conventional wisdom. That may even be the practical earned

experience of your reality. You find that when you're happy, you don't want anything, so you

don't get up and do anything. On the other hand, you know, you still got to do something. You're

an animal. You're here. You're here to survive. You're here to replicate. You're driven. You're

motivated. You're going to do something. You're not just going to sit there all day, unlikely, some people do, maybe it's in their nature, but I think most people still want to act,

they want to live in the arena. I've found for myself as I've become, happier is a big word,

but more peaceful, more calm, more present, more satisfied with what I have, I still want to do

things. I just want to do bigger things. I want to do things that are more pure, more aligned with

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