Key points

The arrival fallacy keeps us waiting for a moment of happiness that never comes.

Our brains are wired for anticipation, not satisfaction, which is why we fall for it.

Awareness alone changes nothing. We must act before we feel ready, starting with the language we use.

If there’s one thing humans excel at, it’s finding increasingly imaginative ways to waste their lives away.

Whether it’s scrolling through TikTok , polishing résumés for jobs we don’t want, or organizing our homes into Pinterest-worthy perfection while the only houseguest we're expecting is a spider weaving quietly in the corner, we seem determined to mistake activity for aliveness. Yet all of these pale in comparison to our greatest time-thief of all: the firm conviction that our real life, the one we’re

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