Accomplishment is a matter of framing; you can get a powerful sense of it by visualizing some simple outcome (e.g. drawing a short line), then doing it, and the

Accomplishment is a matter of framing; you can get a powerful sense of it by visualizing some simple outcome (e.g. drawing a short line), then doing it, and then comparing the (remembered) blank space, your visualization, and the result. You have changed reality through your will; you are an agent; you have an impact on the world. I think this is the basis of all sense of accomplishments - it's just a matter of what you allow yourself to count as a "real" one. After all, what is your contribution to any accomplishment but a complicated conditional sequence of perceptions, judgments and actions? You can raise the bar (for misery punctuated by brief moments of joy), or lower the bar (so every moment is ecstatically joyous). I prefer the latter, but seem to spend most of my time in the former...