Comments on: Dream Smart http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/ a tongue-in-cheek quest for understanding... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jenny http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-454 Jenny Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:36:43 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-454 Why thanks Jason! I like your site a lot also. I'll have to check the thread out when I get to Steve's... Why thanks Jason! I like your site a lot also. I’ll have to check the thread out when I get to Steve’s…

]]> By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-451 Jason Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:40:38 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-451 Why thank you... I even linked to you on the Steve Pavlina forums in a new thread today about favorite self development web sites. Why thank you… I even linked to you on the Steve Pavlina forums in a new thread today about favorite self development web sites.

]]> By: Jenny http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-449 Jenny Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:18:54 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-449 Armand, I agree that the journey is where it's at...that said I certainly enjoy stopping at destinations along the way. ;) Hey Jason, Don't know about top, but you are one of my favorites. :) Armand,
I agree that the journey is where it’s at…that said I certainly enjoy stopping at destinations along the way. ;)

Hey Jason,
Don’t know about top, but you are one of my favorites. :)

]]> By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-447 Jason Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:54:52 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-447 Sheesh I comment a lot on here... am I your top commenter? :P Sheesh I comment a lot on here… am I your top commenter? :P

]]> By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-446 Jason Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:54:16 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-446 Even with pleasure, however, the amount of pleasure you derive and the length of time it lasts is generally correlated strongly to the amount of effort it took to achieve. Even with pleasure, however, the amount of pleasure you derive and the length of time it lasts is generally correlated strongly to the amount of effort it took to achieve.

]]> By: Armand http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-444 Armand Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:57:47 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-444 If tomorrow morning I will wake up and my biggest dream would be reality, it would bring much pleasure into my life. Not happiness, but pleasure. And the thing with pleasure is that by nature it doesn't last, it isn't consistent, while happiness is regarded as something more durable. Pleasure can be achieved quicly and with small amounts of effort, while happiness is something that must e built over time. I've set my dreams so that I could never achieve them... because I love the journey more than the destination. If tomorrow morning I will wake up and my biggest dream would be reality, it would bring much pleasure into my life. Not happiness, but pleasure.

And the thing with pleasure is that by nature it doesn’t last, it isn’t consistent, while happiness is regarded as something more durable.
Pleasure can be achieved quicly and with small amounts of effort, while happiness is something that must e built over time.

I’ve set my dreams so that I could never achieve them… because I love the journey more than the destination.

]]> By: Erin http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-438 Erin Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:35:52 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-438 I also feel like in achieving a dream easily and quickly there is the assumption that anyone could have done it. To use Jenny's example, all it took was luck to win the lottery. Thus, there is no great sense of achievement and one does not feel much self fulfillment, or more importantly pride, from getting there. Therefore, it is difficult to respect what you have attained. I also feel like in achieving a dream easily and quickly there is the assumption that anyone could have done it. To use Jenny’s example, all it took was luck to win the lottery. Thus, there is no great sense of achievement and one does not feel much self fulfillment, or more importantly pride, from getting there. Therefore, it is difficult to respect what you have attained.

]]> By: Jason http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-432 Jason Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:42:56 +0000 http://jenny-and-erin.com/2007/08/dream-smart/#comment-432 This is a very good article. I agree with you... there is a temporary reward from being where you dreamed, but there is a much greater reward (orders of magnitude greater) which lasts much longer from the journey toward it. If that journey is extremely short (as in you are given your dream with little or no effort), the joy derived from it is proportionately small. If the journey is long, and requires effort, then the joy derived from it will grow, both in magnitude and duration. Achieving a goal that takes a life time of work brings more joy and satisfaction than nearly anything else. That is one of the reasons why raising children can bring such joy... there are no shortcuts. You have to go through the entire, decades long journey, and so if they turn out well, you receive immense satisfaction, even joy, and it lasts a long time, most likely the rest of your life. This is a very good article. I agree with you… there is a temporary reward from being where you dreamed, but there is a much greater reward (orders of magnitude greater) which lasts much longer from the journey toward it. If that journey is extremely short (as in you are given your dream with little or no effort), the joy derived from it is proportionately small. If the journey is long, and requires effort, then the joy derived from it will grow, both in magnitude and duration. Achieving a goal that takes a life time of work brings more joy and satisfaction than nearly anything else. That is one of the reasons why raising children can bring such joy… there are no shortcuts. You have to go through the entire, decades long journey, and so if they turn out well, you receive immense satisfaction, even joy, and it lasts a long time, most likely the rest of your life.

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