Growth is in Dissatisfaction
“The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.”~ Berthold Auerbach
Never be satisfied with what you’ve got. Be happy with it, but never satisfied.
Dissatisfaction is a very powerful engine that pushes you to to continuously accomplish more. Without it, you’re stuck with what you’ve got in your life at a certain point.
Think about what would have happened if Edison would have been satisfied with the light that a candle provided. He would not have invented the light bulb. How many of the things that you see today could have been done at the light of a candle? Not too many… Without the light bulb I couldn’t be able to write this and share my ideas with the whole world.
Think about how the world would look today if Nicolaus August Otto would have been satisfied with walking or cycling when traveling from point A to point B. If he would have been satisfied with walking, he would not have invented the gas motor engine in 1876 and today’s cars probably wouldn’t exist. How many of you have a job? How many of you drive for 30 minutes or so every day to get to your job? How many of you go shopping with your car? We take the cars - as many other things - for granted, but it was the dissatisfaction of an individual that created them.
Think about how would your life be without airplanes. If it wasn’t for the dissatisfaction of traveling at low speeds on the surface of the Earth, the revolutionary idea of Sir George Cayley’s in 1799 would not have been born and today’s planes wouldn’t exist. Thanks to that, now we’re not at a great distance away from anything, we’re just a small time away.
Just try to imagine how today’s world would look like without only these three inventions. Very different world, right?
Dissatisfaction is vital if we want any advancements - evolutions - to occur.
You see, when you were a small child and your mother or grandmother or anyone else would have told you to be satisfied with what you’ve got, they were planting a very bad idea into your head. And the effect of that is very dramatic at smaller ages because the subconscious mind is more open and what it sucks in is easily turned into a lifetime paradigm.
Instead of being satisfied with something, be happy with it! If you have kids, don’t teach them to be satisfied with what they’ve got because it’s killing their evolution.
Who wants more of what we have more than enough?
If right now I would be satisfied with having 1-200 readers every day on this blog, I wouldn’t write posts anymore. But I’m not satisfied with those results and I’m constantly working towards improving them.
If you earn $100k a year, don’t be satisfied with that. If you drive a brand new car, don’t be satisfied with that. If you have a beautiful villa in a serene mountain region, don’t be satisfied with it. I see satisfaction as a great enemy of advancement. Once you’re settled with something, it’s natural that you don’t want more. And if you don’t want more, you don’t ask for more and life won’t offer you more.
This goes all the way back to the Law of Attraction. Like energy attracts like energy, and when you’re satisfied you’re not attracting better things. And there is a basic law that states that everything in this Universe is either growing or dying. With a satisfied thinking you don’t grow - that’s obvious, so according to this law there is only one other way for you to go, and that’s an unhappy one.
When satisfied, you’re on your way to lose even the things that you’re satisfied with.
The big corporations have got this concept and added a little twist to it. They try to take away the user’s power to be happy with their products. But that is a different story so I won’t get into too much detail about it.
What I really want you to be able to understand now is that no achievement is great enough to be satisfied with it. Just be happy with everything you’ve got right now, but always strive for more.
Grow, evolve and be happy! 
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