Being joyful and feeling joy are not the same thing.
The fleeting, peak experience of feeling joy in a day, illuminating the darkness surrounding you, regardless of how pleasurable, is not the same thing as having a baseline of pure joy.
The same thing happens when we think.
Being insightful is not the same thing as having lots of insight (or what some call insight porn).
Some people1 seem to have the need to always find a new great idea, a newly unlocked door in the realm of their lives. This feeling of ecstasy, when akin to Archimedes we scream “Eureka!” within our minds, is as addictive as any kind of modern drug.
And yet…Where’s the transformation?
What’s the value in having insight after insight if you actually don’t take the time necessary to implement it? You’re procrastinating on your own realizations by merely having new ones.
Instead, being insightful makes you incorporate those insights into your worldview, creating actual change.
Let’s aim at that.
“some people” is me, I am “some people”.