Success

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A lot of people don't pick realistic goals.
It's a way of being dishonest with yourself and seeking out sabotage, and it's indicative of low self esteem rather than high self esteem you'd normally associate with goal oriented behavior.

More often than not, being driven is about making a series of short steps on the path to a quantifiable goal.
Owning a car for example is incredibly liberating and opens up further opportunities for other goals. But if you ask someone, what do you want to do with your life, people generally won't answer with 'first I want to buy a car'.

I don't to die being a nobody. I have a set of passions I want to pursue.
I want to explore the world as much as I can and enjoy it..
I hate being bored

I think it's human nature to get bored and start to explore your limits. Without that, we never would have left the caveman stage.

But, yes, this can turn negative at some point and people become dissatisfied with everything, which is no good. And social media makes it worse because you see a manufactured version of the lives others are living and it creates unrealistic expectations.

Ultimately, you should only be competing with yourself, to exceed your own previous achievements.

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Stress caused by wanting to achieve more all the time is easier to deal with than the existential dread I feel when I think about dying with no footprint.