success
by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 2mo ago
success
Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one, Man’s Search For Meaning, was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote Man’s Search For Meaning and published it anonymously. “And so it is both strange and remarkable to me,” Frankl wrote, that it became his most well-known and influential work. For the rest of his li
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most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time.
from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
phoebe added 2mo ago
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
from Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
phoebe added 2mo ago
love this.
sari added 3mo ago
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck | Michael Mauboussin | Talks at Google
andrea added 7mo ago
this talk will break your brain
- wholeness isn’t something we acquire by stacking achievements or checking boxes or acquiring products or consumer goods. And I worry about this because I have two small children myself. They are five and six, and I’m thinking often about the world that they’re growing up in and what is that world telling them about who they should be and what succe... See more
from Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer
Alara added 7mo ago
... See moreSuccess, Adele said she eventually realized, is like a “personality...[you have to consider] the whole package.” Your album can sweep the Grammys, but if you were miserable, lonely, sad, angry, and bitter while making it—was it truly a success? And conversely, your movie can flop, but if you loved making it, loved writing it, loved being with it, a
sari added 8mo ago
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
-Herodotus
sari added 8mo ago
