Be Successful Now
We’re obsessed with success and it’s killing us. We’ve fallen in love with a result, and when we fail to achieve it we beat ourselves up wondering what’s wrong with us. We seek out structured paths to achieve it. We become obsessed with those that have. Yet if you ask successful people, they’ll likely tell you they didn’t set out to get rich - they
... See moreBecause they conflate ambition with the single-minded pursuit of an end destination, traditional methods of pursuing goals have an effect counter to their intent: they create a discouraging perspective where we are far from success. Our satisfaction—the best version of ourselves—lies somewhere in the future.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
