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Chasing Excellence

Don't Chase Happiness

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Crossfit, Holistic Health, Mindset, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Is the advice to "just do what makes you happy" a bad strategy? That's what we're talking about today, diving into what creates fulfillment, why we have to be careful about always opting for "fun," and loving the process.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Those are the moments that we that create fulfillment those the moments that make us feel alive

0:04.4

Those are the motion the ones that yes, you're getting the emotional highs the feel goods the happiness

0:10.9

But it's for

0:12.8

The long-term gain it's in line with our purpose. It's not

0:17.9

These short-term things that come and then go and then you got to seek it again

0:22.4

And they come and they go and you got to see it again. They come and they go. It's getting drunk

0:27.1

Getting drunk does not create joy. It creates a short-term feeling of happiness

0:33.4

That's not real and then what happens is you get hung over and you have to chase it again

0:37.8

You have to get it again

0:39.1

But if you get drunk for every day for a decade you don't come out of that decade going like I found it

0:46.7

Whereas if you work your ass off store something purposeful

0:50.1

Intentionally for a decade every day you come out and you go you do go I found it

0:57.3

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control

1:01.8

That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep trained think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and

1:09.2

Happiness that chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible

1:13.6

Our mission is to live on the run always chasing never stop

1:20.6

Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How are you been? I'm doing really good at that

1:27.4

Thanks, we are I wanted to talk to you about something today one somebody who you know

1:32.2

I'd be lying if I said I paid a whole lot of attention to him now

1:34.7

But but I definitely have in the past and I know you have as well Gary V

1:38.5

Somebody he's you know, I think a lot of people know who he is at this point

1:40.9

He's a marketer entrepreneur kind of an Instagram crew

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