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I think concept-association is a huge factor. Many words unleash a flood of associations in our minds, including some really painful ones, and that can shape what entire areas of our lives are like. We're all different in that respect. Sometimes just redefining or reframing something can really open things...
I think radical self-acceptance and radical self-sacrifice are two poles we should play around between. But just like Earth's poles we probabaly don't want to live at either :)
The payoff of hard work is amazing and just about the best thing there is. But I honestly didn't know how to access it for many years. I tried doing things the way others seemed to be doing them and I always either reached a point of total confusion, or...
Definitely... The difficulty/work is actually as a contiguous part of a causal network that includes the reward. A thing can happen where you see, and start to want, the whole thing, not just the part behind the reward. I think I wrote about this once but I can't find it.
"At the end of the day you have to make your own standards to live by." I mean this is really it. No matter how much anyone else cares about you want wants you to succeed, you will only succeed to your own standard.
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