I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind,

body, spirit and work. I'm Viscian Lachiani and this is the Mind Valley podcast.

So the big problem in life in industrialized countries is that all too often we wake up one day at the age of 40

dreading going to work because we were forced to pick a career before we could legally buy a beer

and why does this happen it It's because so many of us in our younger years

think that a means goal is really an end goal. We confuse the two and both of these things are really really

different and this is one of the lessons I wish more people could learn earlier in life

the difference between an end goal and a means goal. Now end goals, end goals are beautiful, end goals are the means goal. Now, end goals are beautiful.

End goals are the end result of being human.

End goals are about experiencing love, traveling around the world, being truly happy, contributing

to the planet, learning a new skill.

Mean Schools are the stuff that society tells us we need to have in place to get to happiness.

For example, getting a good GPA, getting into college, getting into a particular

firm, being with one particular someone, getting a good review at work. The problem is we get so obsessed over these means goals that we lose

sight of the end goals. For example, when I was younger in the early 90s I had a

goal and that goal was to graduate from a good college and

get a job at the leading software company of that time, Microsoft.

And I accomplished that goal after five years of slogging it out, senior of high school, and then university, I finally

ended up at Microsoft.

And 11 weeks later, I realized I absolutely hated my job, and I actually got myself fired. Why? Because I confused a means goal with an

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