Made it? (Outer Success, Inner Turmoil)
Ever feel like you’ve made it but you’re not feeling as content as you think you should?
We can be materially very successful but still feel unsatisfied, unhappy or uneasy. Our brains are funny little things. We all tend to focus on concepts that are easier to grasp, like money or titles, simply because they’re easier to grasp! It’s much more work for our brain to try figure out if we’re feeling happier or more at ease. So our brains try to conserve calories by not thinking about them.
But if we truly want to maximise our success in all areas of our lives we can’t ignore our belief systems or our mindset, particularly where we feel the most resistant to work on.
Quoting Mark Manson:
The problem with the traditional masculine formula – protection, providing, procreating – is that they require men to measure their self-worth via some external, arbitrary metric.
But there need to be new internal metrics for a man’s worth as well — his honesty, his integrity, his emotional openness and ability to remain strong in the face of vulnerability.
The external game can and should be rewarding. Denying our inner needs can mean we’re first to the finish line only to find out we’ve run the wrong race.
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