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The Best Way to Live a Happy and Successful Life
A lot of people will tell you to do what you want, pursue your passion and to live for yourself.
They tell you to focus on making yourself happy and doing only those things that are fun.
You should throw out everything else and never do something you do not want to do, for as long as you follow your passions you will find a good life.
While that may sound nice, it is not something anyone can make a reality.
It’s a half-truth that begets some very misguided ideas on how to achieve a happy, successful life.
Not because the idea is not good in principle, but because it means you are always chasing something.
If you only do what you enjoy in order to get a good life, it assumes that you do not have a good life right now.
There is something else at the end of your path that you have to achieve first to be happy.
The necessity this assumes is what drives most people in the completely opposite direction.
Because no one always gets what they want, nothing lasts forever and needing to succeed in order to be happy means that every setback has the potential to crush ones spirit completely.
