We have been taught to strive for success for as long as we can remember. This is the directive beaten into our heads since we could understand language and it is one of the main goals we set for ourselves. We know that achieving mastery in a field is the way to go because it was told to us so often, that it became a core belief in our psyche. We were also told that the road to success is not an easy one and that we would have to endure many hardships along the way. This is all true, but the definition is incomplete. Success is on one side of the coin while failure is on the other and it is just as important as success in our development. Because we live in a comfort-based society, many of us learn to stay away from the stress and pain that failure brings and choose to avoid it in any way possible. This prevents us from building experience, mental toughness and the means to deal with the bigger problems that will inevitably hit every one of us, eventually. By avoiding the little…
What does it mean to be a winner or a loser? Our topic today is looking mighty deeply into the goals of life itself. Bear with me! 123Ish author Dominus took a crack at the concept trying to tie down "The Loser Mindset" - But really, what constitutes winning and losing in today's society? There used to be goalposts, but now they've moved. Just recently, NY Magazine pondered why so many Millennials now seem to identify as Socialists. When the story posted on Reddit, commenter Sam474 rang in with a pithy observation: See, American kids are brought up to believe that "America is the greatest country in the world," and that they must work hard and sacrifice a lot to be successful. Then they get online and find out that Europeans get free health care, free child care, free school, years of vacation time, employment insurance… on and on. They get jealous, and well they should. European systems aren't even pure Socialism, just a blended Socialist Democracy. They have just as much of a free…
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