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Passion: Articles that deal with the inner drive that we all need to want to MOVE from where we currently are to where we dream to be.
Preparation: These posts reference articles, books, documentaries, speakers, quotes, and other inspirational and formative ideas that I have found that helped me and the people around me.
Practice: Articles in this category have a heavy sports and performance training lean.
Performance: These articles focus on how you go about your work. From networking to communications to finding a better way to do what you do.
Perseverance: Articles in this category speak to the mechanics that we go through both mentally and physically to stay on track and not get STUCK.
Chasing the Feeling: Why Direction Is Everything
Every human being is wired to chase a feeling. That drive shows up early in life and never fully disappears. Some people chase relief, others chase validation, others chase mastery or escape, but the underlying mechanism is the same. The brain learns what produces a sense of reward and reinforces it. Over time, that reinforcement becomes behavior, and behavior becomes identity.
This is where most conversations about addiction and success go wrong. They are treated as moral opposites, with one framed as failure and the other as achievement. In reality, they share the same neurological foundation. Dopamine does not distinguish between a substance and a result. It only responds to repetition and reward. What separates destructive patterns from productive ones is not chemistry, but direction.
Understanding that distinction matters because it reframes intensity. Intensity itself is not dangerous. Untrained intensity is.