The reason the hedonic treadmill exists is because people aren’t taught how to be happy. - Benjamin P. Hardy

The more you invest, the more those investments compound. Investing gets you committed. Investing gets you results. Investing is how you proactively upgrade your vision and goals. As you invest in yourself, you increase your commitment to a bigger vision. This change in commitment simultaneously alters your identity, since your identity is what you’re most committed to.30

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

You can’t overcome an addiction through willpower. You can’t change your life on your own. You need other people. You need to learn to trust others. Transformation can only occur through collaboration, which requires two or more people. The whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. Rather than trying to “author” yourself, you give yourself wholly to another person and dedicate yourself to a cause you believe in. Said psychologist Viktor E. Frankl: