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No. you define your own success. For most people it's a social thing so you look at people around you and define your success. That's why people buy home, buy c

No. you define your own success. For most people it's a social thing so you look at people around you and define your success. That's why people buy home, buy cars, etc. That's fine but you should really have control over what you consider as "success". When I say success I mean having a clear goal of where you want to go and achieving it. If you want to be "cool" and just enjoy your life AND achieve what you want outside of your cool life, feel free to do so, and good luck. I'm just saying you can't win against people who have the same ability who decide to go all in.

linkmotif 10y ago
> I'm just saying you can't win against people who have the same ability who decide to go all in. You're really killing it. <3. I'm loving it because people who say these pretty obvious things are just so few and far between. Instead of listening to John Carmack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202) they choose to parrot these articles by random people who've never done anything except produce clickbait. Also I like people who say: "don't you need to exercise, go for walks, relax?" Of course! But these things must be deployed as part of your effort to achieve your goals. The odds are stacked so hard against you. You need stable finances and health, for one thing, to accomplish anything. Then you need patience, support from your friends and family, vision, a good idea... not to mention some talent, too. It's really hard. If you're not all in, you're not going anywhere in terms of producing something new and interesting. Which is fine, just don't try to sell people on the opposite.
camelNotation 10y ago
>When I say success I mean having a clear goal of where you want to go and achieving it. I strongly disagree with this. Goals - insofar as they exist at all - should always be small, fluid, and constantly shifting based on how you evolve and grow as a person. Who you are in five years should be completely different and better than the person you are today. That only happens by establishing systems of behavior that meet higher order ideals of what is good and virtuous, not embedding your entire understanding of success into a single end point. It's far more effective to measure the hours of each day by the quality of your habits than the years of your life spent fighting for some arbitrary accomplishment that may never come.

linkmotif 10y ago

> I'm just saying you can't win against people who have the same ability who decide to go all in. You're really killing it. <3. I'm loving it because people who say these pretty obvious things are just so few and far between. Instead of listening to John Carmack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202) they choose to parrot these articles by random people who've never done anything except produce clickbait. Also I like people who say: "don't you need to exercise, go for walks, relax?" Of course! But these things must be deployed as part of your effort to achieve your goals. The odds are stacked so hard against you. You need stable finances and health, for one thing, to accomplish anything. Then you need patience, support from your friends and family, vision, a good idea... not to mention some talent, too. It's really hard. If you're not all in, you're not going anywhere in terms of producing something new and interesting. Which is fine, just don't try to sell people on the opposite.

camelNotation 10y ago

>When I say success I mean having a clear goal of where you want to go and achieving it. I strongly disagree with this. Goals - insofar as they exist at all - should always be small, fluid, and constantly shifting based on how you evolve and grow as a person. Who you are in five years should be completely different and better than the person you are today. That only happens by establishing systems of behavior that meet higher order ideals of what is good and virtuous, not embedding your entire understanding of success into a single end point. It's far more effective to measure the hours of each day by the quality of your habits than the years of your life spent fighting for some arbitrary accomplishment that may never come.