We only have so much attention. When our attention is constantly being drained and nagged out of us or we are attending to how we look, we have less attention available to attend to those we love. We begin to feel that there is too little time left to assign our own meaning to our life. . . .
It is our lack of being able to read our own "meaning meter" that exposes us to [discontent].
— Paul Pearsall, Toxic Success