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The Mountain With No Top
Julian Saad
February 05, 2025
Read time: 2 minutes
I first read Greenlights five years ago.
Back then, it spoke to me.
But now — reading it again with a new mind, a new perspective, and a few more miles under my feet — one passage hit differently this time:
Who are we to think we haven't earned them? If we stay and process within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Why? Because we're not thinking of the finish line… We are performing in real-time where the approach is the destination, and there is no goal line because we are never finished.”
We are never finished.
At some point, we have to stop asking,
"How many gold stars does it take to know I’m on the right path?"
We must stop believing we’ll one day "arrive" — that we’ll reach some final destination where everything suddenly clicks into place, and Life feels complete.
Because that moment doesn’t exist.
Most people chase a goal — whether it’s a number in the bank, a title at work, or a certain body weight — only to reach it and feel... underwhelmed.
The momentary high fades.
The "I made it" feeling disappears faster than expected.
And then what?
If you've been attaching your happiness to some arbitrary finish line, you realize the truth:
There is no final arrival point.
There is only the climb.
Introducing The Mountain With No Top...
The idea that success or happiness is a fixed destination is an illusion.
You don’t “arrive” at a meaningful life. You build one.
Every step forward creates a new baseline. Every peak you reach just reveals the next elevation.
The moment you stop growing, you start declining.
That’s why the best performers, the most fulfilled people, and the ones who leave the biggest impact never stop climbing.
Because the mountain doesn’t end.
It just keeps rising.
McConaughey puts it perfectly:
The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don't aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.”
That’s the game.
You don’t just reach for the next goal. You reach past it.
You train yourself to find joy not in the destination, but in the process of going beyond what you once thought was possible.
This shift in mindset changes everything.
Instead of seeking completion, you embrace expansion.
Instead of focusing on checking off accomplishments, you focus on who you’re becoming through the process.
Instead of seeing the journey as exhausting, you recognize that the journey is the reward.
A roof is a man-made thing."
Most of our limits are, too.
This is why the Mountain With No Top analogy matters so much to me.
There is no final peak.
No moment where you can finally sit back and say, “I’ve made it. Now I can stop growing.”
Growth is the aim.
Evolution is the process.
And your only job?
To keep on climbin'.
So let me ask you:
Where in your Life have you been waiting to "arrive" instead of embracing the climb?
And what would happen if you stopped chasing the peak and started living in the pursuit?
Be honest & real with yourself, my friends.
That's where the true gold lies...
Thanks for reading!
Much Love,
Julian