Unlike some other emotions, satisfaction doesn't just fall in…

Unlike some other emotions, satisfaction doesn't just fall in your lap. You have to create it for yourself, and doing so requires motivation. Until recently, most researchers assumed that some variation of the pleasure principle governed human motivation. Freud coined the phrase "pleasure principle," but the idea that life is composed of the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain goes back at least two thousand years. The pleasure principle is only one of many commonsense ideas about what humans want.

— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment by Gregory Berns, MD, Ph.D.

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Above all, devote your time and energy to what you enjoy, because excellence follows enthusiasm, and almost nothing done purely for prestige ever satisfies. Satisfaction won't simply fall into your lap, either — you have to create it for yourself, and that takes a bit of motivation. It is both psychologically and, I'd add, spiritually good for a person to find happiness in the work he actually does. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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