Everybody
wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and
easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to
look perfect and make money
and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the
point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room.
Everyone would like that — it’s easy to like that.
If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous that it doesn’t even mean anything.
A
more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never
considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you
willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant
of how our lives turn out.