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Thinking “If I can just have X, then I’ll be happy”

Goals are great to have. You will be aimless without them. But goals do have some dangers. At times we become so obsessed with our goals that we sacrifice other parts of our life. And when we achieve our goals, if we're too invested in them, we feel empty afterwards.

Goals cannot make you happy. Goals are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. They are only supposed to give some direction.

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We all think our beliefs are correct

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Believing “More is better”

"More is better" is a trap we fall into even though most people understand that materialism and conspicuous consumption are really empty pursuits. We want to travel more, see more, do more, more friends, more options, more, more, more.

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The reasoning behind this belief is that if you believe you know what you're doing, you'll have more confidence, and you'll do it better.

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Common belief: “If it doesn’t help me, then forget it”

Self-improvement has one dangerous drawback: the sense that it's accomplishing something can become a low-level addition. In the process, it will gut your emotional life.

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