There are those among us that reach greatness. We notice many of them only after they managed to grab the attention through some impressive achievement. News of these exceptional men and women circulate and make us wonder just how they did it. The easy answers most of us come up with are: “They are naturally talented, otherwise they wouldn’t be standing there, receiving praise”, “They must have had the right connections, so an easy ride to the top was a given”, “That person is an as**le that must have used others and then abandoned them”, “There’s no way you can get to that level without doing something fishy” and so on. These are the reactions that expose our pettiness, weakness of character and mediocre achiever mindset. We judge others without knowing what they went through to get to where they are. In stating this, I don’t deny the existence of terrible people who are willing to walk over bodies to get what they want. I’m trying to shed some light on the inner workings of the minds…
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…
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