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Success can have a strange effect. It raises the bar for you. The merit of your accomplishments become relative to what you did yesterday. If you don't out-perf
by cjcenizal 11y ago
Success can have a strange effect. It raises the bar for you. The merit of your accomplishments become relative to what you did yesterday. If you don't out-perform past results, you're failing. And if you're failing... then aren't you a failure?
I think we forget that failure is the default state. Which redefines success to be making any attempt at all. Like Edison said: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- mudge 11y agoA person only fails when he/she stops trying.
- vitd 11y agoI get what you mean, but I feel like sometimes it's important to just stop if you're repeatedly failing at something. I often find that taking a break (stopping trying for a bit) gives my subconscious time to breathe and figure out what my conscious brain couldn't.
- Retra 11y agoHave you actually found that to be a useful thing to believe -- "I'm a success as long as I can get out of bed...?"
- stuartaxelowen 11y agoFrom Andre 3000: "Baby boy you're only funky as your last cut, you focus on the past your ass'll be a has what"
- matwood 11y agoFrom Jay-Z..."Treat my first like my last, and my last like my first"
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoThe intro on that song is even better; it's a Biggie sample from an unpublished 1996 interview [some "like"s omitted]: "Puff [Daddy] told me, the key to this joint, the key to staying on top of things, is treat everything like it's your first project, nomsayin'. Like it's your first day back when you was an intern. That's how you try to treat things, just stay hungry."