New Article for Thrive Global: Desire the Path

My first ever article for Thrive Global has been published. It's on a topic I've covered several times before, but never explicitly and directly.  And usually I relate it to quitting smoking. Namely, it's the importance of desiring the path itself, not the goal.

First I note how most things are much better everything  yet even more and more people are anxious, depressed, etc. There are many reasons for this (like FOMO and social media), but a really big one is that there are so many choices and people are setting so many goals and living in what Scott Adams' calls "pre-success failure." As one example I give in the piece,

Take for example the fact that something like 97 percent of dieters regain all the weight they lose within three years. This really shouldn’t surprise anyone. A diet is something we force ourselves to do in order to accomplish a goal. The very definition implies, or perhaps even infers, that dieting is unpleasant and something we don’t want to do. How can anyone possibly not do something they want to do in perpetuity?

​Furthermore, why would anyone want to do that to themselves?

Instead, the key is to find a path you can enjoy staying on. In this case, a path of healthy eating and working out that you enjoy. It even works for quitting smoking as I can attest.

​Please check out the piece!