We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She wil never sit down on a hot stove-lid again —and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Science calls this effect the hedonic treadmill: We work hard, advance, and are able to afford more and nicer things, and yet this doesn’t make us any happier.
I HATE YOU ELON MUSK I HATE YOU SPACEX I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOO I HATE
EVERYONE SAID IT WAS GOING TO THE MOON SO I PUT 18K INTO CALLS
THAT WAS MY LIFE SAVINGS AND THE MONEY I WAS GOING TO USE FOR COLLEGE I DONT KNOW WHATCTO DO ANYMORE
You have a poultry and you feed them daily, the birds after a while always trust you to feed them, until it's Christmas day and you kill them. The birds have fallen victim to inductive thinking, the inclination to draw universal certainties from individual observations.
In real life, in the financial markets and in business, with the weather and your health, events are often interrelated. What has already happened has an influence on what will happen.
However, if you ever visit the graveyard of failed individuals and companies, you wil realize that its tenants possessed many of the same traits that characterize your success.