The Best Advice I Received Lately 💭
2024-05-18 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:44 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial
Ali passes on the best advice he got recently: no achievement will make you happier than you are now, so pursue goals but focus on enjoying the journey, because of the arrival fallacy.
What is said
The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).
00:00:00 — No achievement will make you happier; the arrival fallacy; enjoy the journey while pursuing goals
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★★★ Ali calls the best advice he got recently the idea that no achievement you could reach will make you any happier than you are right now. — 00:00:00
“there is no achievement that you can possibly achieve that will make you any happier than you are right now”
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★★ Ali says goals and achievements are still worth pursuing because they give a sense of progress and momentum, but the focus should be on enjoying the journey along the way. — 00:00:00
- ★★ Ali describes the arrival fallacy from psychology: the belief that reaching some point will make you happy, while the happiness found there is fleeting and does not last long. — 00:00:00
Threads in this video
- restate · How do you become happier? — Ali calls the best advice he got recently the idea that no achievement you could reach will make you any happier than you are right now. (00:00:00)
- refine · Should you set goals, and how? — Ali says goals and achievements are still worth pursuing because they give a sense of progress and momentum, but the focus should be on enjoying the journey along the way. (00:00:00)
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