Alex Hormozi | The Power of Hard Work: Measuring Your Growth

And so, it's not like "work hard so that X." Because as soon as you have a "so that," then the X is the thing. But if the goal is to work as hard as you possibly can, then the only real output we have is who we become along the way.
And so, in reframing that, it's something that I can win or measure myself against every day, in real time throughout the day, which is: how hard am I working? Because that is the goal.
And then—even though I say this just for clarity—everything else takes care of itself, still putting "everything else" as the goal, albeit in a vaguer way. But if you just say, "the only point is working hard," because I know that whatever I get is something I'll become accustomed to, then... I guess the opposite of the hedonic treadmill is like the resilience piece, in that my ability to work hard itself is growable.
So, I just need to keep my RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) at 8, 9, or 10, because I know that when I look back on my life, the days I loved the most were the ones when I had nothing left in the tank.