The real sting here lies in recognizing that wanting and wishing are *emotional states*, not categories of people—they're the same person at different moments of self-deception. Jordan cuts deeper than the usual motivation talk because he's naming the specific way we fool ourselves: we confuse feeling strongly about something with having actually *decided* to pursue it. A person might spend years saying "I want to write a novel" while never opening a blank document, and the gap between that wanting and making it happen isn't about talent or luck—it's about the unglamorous decision to trade comfort for effort, again and again. What distinguishes his observation is that he's not praising ambition; he's pointing out that ambition without action is just pleasant daydreaming, indistinguishable from apathy in any meaningful sense.