The journey keeps the prize

Imagine you snapped your fingers and woke up with a six-pack at two percent body fat. Or snapped them again and became a billionaire overnight.

Two questions. Would you even enjoy it, once the trade-offs you didn't see coming showed up? And would you know how to keep it? Most people who win the lottery end up right back where they started, because they never learned how to maintain money in the first place.

The journey isn't the tax you pay for the prize. It's the thing that builds the capacity to hold onto it. Skip the climb and the summit won't hold you.