✨ The Gap and Gain book review 🌟
💡 Why are most people "unhappy" when life gets better and better?
Many times I was one of those people who felt that life lacked happiness.
Try to go out and seek, such as eating delicious things, watching movies, listening to music, playing games, of course, fulfilling happiness while dopamine works, but then...The same feeling came back.
Why is that?
Until I opened a long-forgotten book.
But the content of the inside unlocks this distraction: Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan's book "The Gap and the Gain."
Today I'm going to tell you about their interesting idea of "holes and hills," which are the opposite poles. Let's see. Maybe this idea will also unlock your life!
📌 The pit addicts look for "what is lacking" (The Gap).
Being trapped in a hole is a comparison of the unfulfilled state of mind.
This group of people will always feel themselves "missing" something.
It leads to the feeling of "unhappy" if you do not have what you want to fulfill, which often happens to people who have achieved a lot but are too attached to their goals.
✨ Give an example:
Suppose
Your goal is to have $1 million before you turn 30.
(Which is a good goal)
By the age of 30, it turned out that you collected $9 million.
(Which is considered a lot)
The person trapped in the hole will look at the target (1 million) compared to what he currently has (9 lakh), which of course is still "missing" another 1 lakh.
Which is why he feels unhappy.
Because the goal hasn't been fulfilled as expected.
It's actually only a little missing.
They do not see themselves as traveling much further than the beginning...
📌 people on the hill look at "what there is."
Going up a hill is the opposite pole of being stuck in a hole.
These people will look at what they have today to compare with their beginnings in the past.
"Beat Yesterday," the Garmin motto, is a good example of this concept.
Well, not to compare to a target, not to anyone.
Just compare to ourselves yesterday (the past) is enough.
✨ Back to the original example: Target 1 million, collect 9 lakh.
People on the hill will feel that they have come a long way from the beginning.
At the beginning, they didn't have a penny, but now they have nine hundred thousand.
Despite not reaching the goal, it was a satisfying big breakthrough.
📌 What is this idea teaching us?
If you want to compare
✅, compare yourself to the beginning.
❎ not compared to the finish line or compared to others.
In the age of comparison that everyone lives on,
Social media, it's so easy for us to fall into a hole and think that our lives are nothing good.
✨ training to stay on the mound is an important skill to lull the mind to "be satisfied with what it has, not looking for what it lacks."
📌 There's a sentence in my favorite book:
- If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have.
- If you care about what you have, you get what you lack.
📌 Last.
Don't let the slightest lack ruin the happiness of your life. You've traveled a long way. Take a break. Take a look on the way. Maybe you'll discover that happiness is not at the finish line, but on the way you're going.
I wish you all happiness on the hill of progress. 😉
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