No matter what we have going on, what we have going on, what we have coming up,

there is this sense of feeling like things should be better.

Like somehow what we're experiencing isn't quite enough.

And what's interesting about that is that it's really, it's in our DNA, you know, it's a part of our human evolutionary design.

And that's really useful because, you know,

a hundred thousand years ago or fifty thousand years ago we would adapt to

whatever our experience was and so we would feel like, okay, this is normal. So if we were, you know,

moving to the jungle and found some food, we wouldn't just go, okay, I found food, I'm just going to stay here because

that food will run out and then we would be screwed.

So we evolved to have this sense of pleasurable adaptability and like status adaptability

to where we go, oh I have food but this isn't enough I need to keep searching for more food.

Even though I have it this isn't this isn't good.

So then we would keep moving and we'd keep that part of

our mind sharp where you know we needed to continue to be on the lookout and

continue to keep desiring and craving ultimately.

And this trait, you know, these deep brain states and evolved behaviors of ours, they don't go away. They can't go away. They're the

foundation of what we are as animals. But what they do is that they evolve and they change and ultimately on a symbolic level

those you know the need system the function of all those things just have the symbols swapped out.

So what that means is that now we aren't obviously walking to the jungle,

least most of us aren't. And so those desire systems to keep seeking show up in terms of our finances, our status, our, you know, our achievements, our

relationships, whatever they are. And ultimately it makes us feel like no

matter where we are that things aren't good enough

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