We often get ourselves caught up in doing things with the hope that we will get some result out of it. It’s the basis for the expression “It’s a means to an end”. The means are the things you have to do to achieve some end. But what happens when you the end doesn’t happen? And what would you want to waste any of your life doing something in the hopes that something will happen? Shouldn’t it be good enough to do great work, or to get to know someone without intending to leverage that relationship for something?