Accolades and rewards become less and less the deeper you get into the game.

If you don't love the process, you become burned out because the results aren't as black and white as they once were.

Then you realize the game gets harder as you go along. So, winning the game becomes harder and the rewards are more abstract and less.

Meanwhile, you might be getting passed by peers or you scroll your feed and see influencers winning the game in ways that you aren't.

Becomes a mental drag that spirals into asking "what's the point?". 

Recipe for disaster if you don't love the process.

Everyone is from somewhere. Cofounder and CEO of Pinata. https://www.pinata.cloud/

the only way to win the game is to play your own, otherwise it’s all rigged so you never get a chance

the moment we let others control our emotions, goals, and overall mindset, our agency greatly diminishes

if you are creating the rules, you can change the rules when they no longer apply or work for you

life’s an infinite sandbox vr videogame and everyone chooses which side-quests they fixate on, but mostly to a lesser degree, let
others choose for them by just following the main missions scripted by society, family, and your culture