When You Get What You Want and it Changes Nothing - Inner Circle Ep 17

What if the mountain you are climbing right now is still the wrong one? Mike and Kevin both read David Brooks's Second Mountain and came away with the same conclusion: the model is incomplete. This episode is their attempt to finish it. They discuss: • Why reaching the top of the first mountain so often feels empty, and what that emptiness is actually telling you • The case for a third mountain, and why you probably have to climb the second one before you can even see it • How people dress up their achievement mountain in spiritual clothing and convince themselves they have changed • What Mike calls dirty fuel versus clean fuel, and how to tell which one is actually driving you • Whether losing your edge is something to fear or something to welcome • Do you have to climb the first mountain to eventually find peace, or is there another way in If you have hit a goal that was supposed to change everything and found yourself quietly wondering what comes next, this conversation will name what you are sitting with. The fun, it turns out, might be in not knowing. Connect with Kevin and Mike on X for more from The Inner Circle: Kevin Dahlstrom: https://x.com/Camp4 Mike Brown: https://x.com/mbrown_co