"The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!"
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Achievement, in this view, is not a finish line but a spark. Each milestone should kindle curiosity rather than complacency, widening the horizon and inviting you to keep moving. The thrill isn’t in stacking trophies or edging up a social ladder; it’s in discovering that the world keeps offering more to feel, learn, and understand. Success becomes a compass pointing toward fresh terrain, skills to cultivate, relationships to deepen, mysteries to sit with, rather than a certificate of completion.
By explicitly setting aside money and social approval, the focus shifts from external validation to intrinsic aliveness. The “more” at stake is a richer texture of experience: the subtlety of a conversation where you finally listen fully, the satisfaction of mastering one new passage on an instrument, the awe of noticing a night sky you’ve seen a thousand times but never truly looked at. Progress here is measured in depth, presence, and wonder.
There is a paradox at work: the more you achieve, the more you realize how much remains unexplored. That recognition can humble and energize in equal measure. It encourages a beginner’s mind, open, responsive, and eager, where achievement expands capacity for awe instead of shrinking it into entitlement. Psychologically, it aligns with motives of autonomy, competence, and relatedness; the journey itself supplies meaning.
Going further need not mean going faster. It can mean going truer, choosing projects that stretch your curiosity, relationships that invite honesty, practices that build attention. Set goals that end with question marks, not exclamation points. Seek flow, not fanfare. Let accomplishment be a doorway, not a destination.
To call living “so rich” is to recognize abundance in ordinary moments as well as peak ones. The reward for achieving is not the end of striving, but the liberation to explore more generously, more attentively, and more alive.
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