Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

The Number Nobody Thinks to Change

Daily Chase #294

Jul 22, 2026
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The writer Arthur Brooks has a practice he does on his birthday: he writes down all his desires — money, power, admiration, ambition — and then crosses them out. Not to eliminate them, but to detach from them.

His formula: satisfaction equals what you have divided by what you want. You can increase it temporarily by having …

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