Is What You Want, Something You Really Want, Or Something You Want

Years ago, after reading Seth Godin’s The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick), I realised I’ve been holding my breath for decades without even knowing it! And I was in fact starting to turn slightly blue from the lack of oxygen, metaphorically speaking.

Allow me to explain.

You see, that book sparked a whole series of questions about which goals, which dreams I needed to quit chasing because it was not what I actually wanted. Let’s start with a simple example…