Big dreams are painful. I heard this in a therapy podcast a few weeks ago and it resonated with me. The desire to arrive somewhere, to become somebody or to have something and the “not yet” that we face every day is most painful. We can ignore it but it will not do us good …
I am currently reading a book on what the author calls “the optimal experience”. The book is called „Flow: The Psychology of Happiness” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Basically, using the findings of modern psychology, the book tries to answer a very old question: When do people feel most happy? Even though the book has more than …