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But it is one of the most important. If exception s rise with results there is no logic in striving for more because you would feel the same after putting in extra effort. It gets dangerous when the taste of having more, more money, more power, more prestige, increases ambition faster than satisfaction, In that case one step forward pushes the goalpost two steps ahead. You feel as if you are falling behind and the only way to catch up is to take greater and greater amounts of risk.
Modern capitalizing is a pro at two things, generating wealth and generating envy. Perhaps they go and in hand, wanting to surpass your peers can be the fuel of hard work. But life is nog any fun without a sense of enough. Happiness, as it said, is just results minus expectation.