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How to Define Success on Your Own Terms
Material Possessions
If you view material possessions as the overwhelming proof that someone is successful—maybe you’ve got it wrong.
The most successful people see acquiring material possessions as benefits of the labor bargain.
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A personal Philosophy
We all need personal philosophy in life or we risk wandering and responding to random stimuli and information with little or no impact on our long-term goals.
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Being Insanely Successful By Going Against The Norm
- Success means different things to different people and is not always about bigger cars or the number of followers.
- To achieve something extraordinary, you have to do something tha...
Being Aware of The Narrative Fallacy
The Narrative Fallacy makes us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. When it comes to success, do not fall for the ‘narrative’ fallacy’ and think that great people became successful due to what happened to them, and if we emulate that, we will achieve the same result.
We need to do something extraordinary and exceptional to achieve great success, and that makes any successful person an exception, someone who did what few others were willing to do. Instead of googling for success, find what you want to do to change the world!
Success Is Something We Make Up
- Very few of us went through childhood without getting any emotional scars.
- Be it home or school, we suffered many problems when our impressionable mind wasn’t mature enough to handle them the way we can as an adult.
- Our worldview becomes skewed, and we start to build upon the mutated version of the world around us, messing up with our lives.
- Success by itself is not about money or fame or power, but our upbringing programs us to think about success in a certain way.
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What fear of success looks like
- Fear of success usually doesn’t mean a literal fear of success. People fear the results and consequences of making lots of money, for example, not the money itself.
- Fear of success is ...
Fear of success
It's a very real but often misunderstood struggle. The key thing to realize is that, in most cases, the fear is about the consequences of success, not the success itself.
This fear likely has very strong and very old origins in a person’s past.
Work through your fear of success
- Validate your fear of success by understanding its origins.
- Track your avoidance strategies related to fear of success.
- Face your fears of success (the smart way).
- Get professional help from a cognitive behavioral therapist.