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What Losing Your Job and Reaching the Top Have in Common

Life Fulfilled Podcast · 2026-06-29 · 19 min

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What if the person who just lost their job and the person who finally got everything they ever wanted are actually facing the exact same problem? One had their foundation knocked out from under them. The other built theirs so high they can barely see the ground anymore. Different circumstances, different bank accounts, different Monday mornings but underneath it all, the same quiet ache. That's what this episode is about. Who This Is For This episode is for you if you are in the middle of a hard job search and wondering whether the problem is bigger than your resume. It is also for you if your career is going well by every measurable standard and you still find yourself thinking, wait, is this it? If either of those hit close to home, you are in the right place. Five Key Takeaways The Arrival Fallacy is real and almost nobody talks about it. Harvard psychologist Tal Ben Shahar coined the term to describe a belief most of us carry without ever saying it out loud: that once we hit the goal, the title, the milestone, we will finally feel complete. He identified it as a trap, not a truth.

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