Hello and

in today's human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about the feeling of progress. More to come on that in a moment. First, let's settle

in together with the sound of the bells. Okay. Okay, so today we're going to talk about the feeling of making progress and the

importance of making progress.

I'm sure you're familiar with and have had experiences

where you were working on something,

whether it's a form of emotional healing or learning a new skill, or trying

to master something within your work or your relationship and you could feel

along the way these little milestones where it's like oh wow I've really come a long way from where I was before my

understanding my insight my capacity my skill set has clearly grown and there's something intrinsically rewarding about that.

The feeling of progress itself feels good.

And this has been talked about from, you know, motivational speakers, personal development people like Tony Robbins all the way to, you know, actual scientists and researchers on human motivation like Ed D.C. and Richard Ryan from the University of Rochester

of how this autonomous exploration in our life toward mastery and developing competence is an intrinsically rewarding experience.

And sometimes though, the emphasis on making progress can get a bad rap, especially in the

mindfulness world or in the self-care world where it's often the over-emphasis on making progress

that can actually cause so much tension. Have you experienced that also in your

own life? It's like I have to get better I have to get better, have to get better.

And then what happens?

We just deny all these cues that we need rest

or deny all these opportunities to stop and take care and to go easy and then we end up burning ourselves out.

And as it tends to happen in our culture, at least in American culture. The pendulum swings in so many different,

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