Only the unsatisfied do things. The satisfied do nothing. Unsatisfaction is the stimulus to achievement. Satisfaction is destruction and leads down to the chamber of death.”
–Jack London
Here Jack London, a great writer IMO, talks as if satisfaction is a bad thing. 
But is it really a bad thing to be satisfied?
Why all the clamor about doing?
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If you don't have any satisfaction after completing a difficult task, you likely wouldn't do it.
I know some artists that are never satisfied with their work, and so it never gets released!
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Let's read some Jack London while we think about satisfaction! Here's a collection of short stories to get into
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Comfort is a killer nowadays, especially in the west.
Most people around me dull themselves with the satisfaction that comes from mindlessly consuming snacks, games and screens and drugs.
His quote wouldn't be as prescient in an age of motivated handworkers, but in a generation bereft of concepts like hard work, it rings true.
In my environment, satisfaction (in its smug nihilism) is a cancer which has metastasized into an NPC's death sentence. Its turned lions into sheep, sheep into food, and, a video game, netflix, tik tok, uber eats, alcohol and weed combo, into the meaning of life.
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Satisfaction is not a bad thing. That’s why the emphasis on contentment and gratitude these days. But I think it can turn out to be a limiting factor if it hinders people from wanting to grow further
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It's part of the cycle
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I think expansion is great. If we aren't growing, we are dying. That being said, I would love to find more satisfaction in chopping wood. Enjoying the process of constantly changing.
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I think the writer is right in the meaning he brought. Satisfaction brings accommodation.
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I think that when referring to satisfaction he was talking about the fact that when you feel satisfied you no longer aspire to anything else, you no longer aspire to continue fighting for your dreams or projects, you fall into monotony in the empty world.
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I think satisfaction can lead to complacency, which is an issue
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