I Doubled My Salary And It was The Worst Decision I Ever Made

She got the promotion she spent years working toward.

Two weeks later, she was near tears on our coaching call.

Nothing went wrong. Nobody treated her badly. The money was better, the title was real, and everyone on LinkedIn congratulated her.
She just couldn't believe this was what she wanted.

This episode is about why that happens — and why it happens more than anyone talks about.

There's a Harvard study on it. A Nobel Prize-winning researcher identified it. And after 25 years of coaching leaders across hundreds of companies, I've watched it play out quietly in corner offices, military promotions, and five-star kitchens.

We are terrible at predicting how we'll feel when we arrive somewhere. We think the title will feel like something. It usually doesn't. And when it doesn't, most people assume something is wrong with them.
Nothing is wrong with them. They were just chasing a milestone when what they actually wanted was a feeling — and they never stopped to figure out what that feeling was.

This episode covers:
 — The real story behind a coaching client's SVP promotion (and why she was near tears two weeks in)
 — The arrival fallacy: why humans consistently overestimate how happy they'll be when they get what they want
 — A 2010 Nobel Prize-winning study on money and life satisfaction — and what the number actually looks like in today's economy
 — Why the higher up you go, the less of the work you actually loved you get to do
 — The difference between chasing a milestone and chasing a feeling — and why only one of them can actually be planned for
 — The worst professional experience of my career, what I thought I was chasing, and what I was actually chasing
If you've ever arrived somewhere you worked hard to get and felt nothing — or less than nothing — this one is for you.

Timestamps
 00:00 — Amy's story: the promotion that didn't feel the way she expected
 05:28 — The arrival fallacy (and why we're bad at predicting our own happiness)
 07:59 — The Nobel Prize study on money and life satisfaction
 10:30 — Why climbing higher means doing less of what you loved
 17:31 — Chasing a feeling vs. chasing a milestone
 19:37 — The worst job I ever took — and what I was really chasing

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