When your primary goal is to contribute to this…
When your primary goal is to contribute to this something bigger, you will still work just as hard, but the motivation driving you is different
— from Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)
In the book
Aim it, too, at your real strengths — look inside, find your strongest threads, and reinforce them with practice until you can build a role around them; you will recognize those gifts by three clues: the things you yearn toward, the skills you pick up unusually fast, and the work that leaves you satisfied. And give your goal a why larger than yourself, because when the aim is to contribute to something bigger you work just as hard but the fuel runs deeper and steadier. But here is the reframe that has saved me more disappointment than any other, and I want you to hold it tightly: you control the process, not the achievement. You command your actions; you do not command the outcome. — Goals, Action & Defining Success (Goal/Action/Success/Motivation)