success

The idea of appearing to do something - you get the same level of satisfaction if you know that someone believes you’re accomplishing something as you do from actually accomplishing something and so it’s easy to get trapped in that loop and so you never get there because you’re too busy sharing that you’re getting somewhere instead of actually... See more
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 life, Frankl would share
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The truly awful thing about success is that it’s held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. https://t.co/UAKhfmqDGR
Kevin Kelly has this great idea that you need your own distinct definition of success. For me, success would be cultivating a very specific reputation. I'd like my reputation to be "talk to that guy and you'll leave energized, thinking about something new. Good things will happen, and it'll generally cost you nothing."