



So what should you be doing?





While your brain might like what it knows from an efficiency standpoint, from the mood perspective, your noodle eventually is going to revolt against you pressing repeat. It's when you do something new, something novel, that the brain's reward system jolts you with chemicals like dopamine that make you feel really awesome. It's when you push yourself and explore, when you learn more about who you really are or what you're capable of, that you get excited about yourself and everything else the world has yet to show you. That's when you feel your most creative, motivated and powerful. That's when life has its most vibrant color.





So don't "do what makes you happy" and retreat into routine. For real euphoria, you have to break the pattern. You have to do what's out of your comfort zone, to do what initially makes you a little nervous. It's OK not to stay in the same company for 30 years. It's OK to choose a cream sauce instead of the vinaigrette or read Dickens instead of Brooks, Hill or Carnegie. Do what you've never experienced and maybe, just maybe, you'll end up without any regrets.



