and even when we manage to attain semi permanent…
Page 91 and even when we manage to attain semi permanent achievements, we quickly adapt to our success and the failure to live up to our new expectations results in more pain.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
In the book
Anger, we said, is just an expectation collision. And the cruelest trick of the forecasting instrument is that we adapt: attain the thing we were sure would make us happy, and within months the expectation simply resets higher, and we are hungry again. A pilot who never learns this chases altitude he can never keep. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
Also belongs to
- Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)
- Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)
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