Happiness is not a static destination
You can't reach happiness after achieving a goal. Achieving a goal may give you a short-term boost, but your levels of happiness will continue to rise and fall according to the internal and external events you experience.
Everyone falls prey to this fallacy, from ordinary individuals to highly-educated people.
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The arrival fallacy: why we should decouple our happiness from our goals
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Life is like facebook. People will like your problems & comment, but no one will solve them because everyone`s busy updating theirs.
When we tie our happiness to the achievement of a goal, we fall prey to the arrival fallacy.
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