Desires and Happiness
A lot in life is meant to find what you are destined to do uniquely. The purpose is to find what is the one thing you want to achieve. The problem happens when we have multiple fuzzy desires; when we want to do multiple different things and we are not clear on what we want to do. We need to pick one ferment desire, find a way to reach that desire where it does not feel like work. If you enjoy the process, then you will out compete everybody else.
Most of the time people spend too much time doing, but not actually thinking what they should be doing. Life is search of who and what needs you the most. The people who are successful are irrationaly passionate about something. However it needs patience. It takes years to build a business or a career.
Happiness is an internal trait of accepting what is going on around you. It is a sense that nothing is missing in this moment. Our natural state is to be happy, we are born intrinsically happy, but we become unhappy because our egos create desire and desires pull us out of the moment. People find something is missing this moment and we chase that and we wonder why we are unhappy. Then we try to drown that sense of loss through pleasure. Pleasure comes through partying, drinking, drugs, sex or extreme sports. All trying to forget our unhappiness.
Excerpts from books and talks by J. Krishnamurthy and N. Ravikant
