The Biggest Barrier Towards Fulfillment — And How To Overcome It

Goncalo Hoshi
5 min readDec 14, 2020
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Fulfillment.

Hard to translate into words, however, for the mast part, a destination we are all trying to reach.

For how much the temptation for a life of comfort and care-freeness, there seems to always be the internal pull towards something more.

Personally, I strongly believe this to be achieved when striving for a goal we deem worthy.

As Albert Camus put it:

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The big problem with this, and the reason why so many of us are miserably pushing our “boulder”, one that I felt in the past, is because the choice of the burden didn’t seem like ours. Sure, you graduated, went to the job interview, and are now pursuing a career in that field… But is that what you truly wanted?

If I took you back to high-school, would you have taken the same path again?

Without having to hear every individual answer, unfortunately, from my experience talking with those of you that reach out, the answer tends to be no.

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