Welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 67.

I am your host Noah Rasheda, and today I'm talking about our tendency to feel like things are never enough.

So the title of this podcast episode never enough comes from a song in the musical The Greatest Showman, with Hugh Jackman.

If you have seen it, there is a song in that movie called Never Enough, and I really like that song.

I think it has a really powerful message that to me quite honestly seems like the anthem of our society.

It's a way of thinking that seems to permeate our societal views and our expectations towards life, towards others, and towards ourselves.

If you think about this when it comes to physical things like having a house, there is this mentality of never enough.

Yet you can have a great home and you're always daydreaming of what that bigger house would have.

Or this house is great, but it would be better with a pool or same with our jobs.

This job would be great, but if I could just get paid more or if I had a better title or if I could get moved up to the office with the corner window view,

whatever it is, there's this tendency to think of never enough.

We're always seeking after more.

We do this with our relationships.

We do this with our experiences and our feelings.

You can be feeling great about something in life, but that's never enough.

We're always looking for the next thing.

And I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

I think this tendency has driven us as individuals, but also collectively as a species, as a society,

to be able to make leaps and bounds in terms of comforts, technological innovations,

because there is this drive that seems to motivate us for a better life and it's always happening.

So I don't want to give off the impression that this is necessarily a bad thing,

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