Can You Imagine Sisyphus Happy? · ADHD Focus Founders

Can You Imagine Sisyphus Happy?

The Myth of Sisyphus is an essay written by philosopher Albert Camus and discusses the human condition in parallel to the greek myth of a curse placed on the mythological figure Sisyphus.

In the myth, a decietful and conniving king named Sisyphus tricks the gods and is punished to push a boulder up a hill everyday. When it gets to the top it falls back down and he is forced to repeat this cycle for eternity.

In Camus' essay he uses this myth as a comparison to everyday life. Every day we wake up and repeat the same few things everyday sleep and then repeat and this can be seen a lot in businesses during their early stages. Alex Hormozi calls these the "unscaleables" and heavily emphasizes their importance but that doesnt take away how painfully repetitive and unrewarding some of these task are.

This story came to mind today during a conversation me and

@Brian Diep

and

@Josh Holland

had regarding a video that discusses this topic and more.

In the youtube video on The Diary of A Ceo, with Alex O'Connor, Dr. K and Greg Koukl, they discuss the human condition and what things like religion, psychedelics, therapy, etc, do to aid, or harm, this experience.

Around the 1 hour mark they make it to an interesting spot where they discuss finding happiness in the monotony of life. How finding joy in pushing boulders or folding paperclips everyday is possible, and how doing things simply because you love to do them makes pushing these "boulders" or folding "paperclips" so much easier.

Thats my yap sesh for the day.

I do want to ask tho: What is you boulder or paperclip in life, and do you love them? What are some things you do to make pushing the same boulder everyday easier? And lastly, Can you imagine Sisyphus being happy with such a curse?

Also i will link the video and time stamp in the comments. I highly encourage you to listen to at least this part if not the whole video. Its a wonderful experience!

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