Everyone wants to succeed in life. However, what's the definition of success to each of us? Is it what we want in life that we have achieved? or is it that we have achieved what society expects out of us?
If success == what society expects us to do in life then isn't that a limiting factor in this whole game? Anyway who's that swine on the street to tell you how much you should earn or where you should work or what car you should drive? Very often its people who have achieved nothing in their own lives who pass these comments, maybe its somewhat an ego boost to them. Perhaps if they concentrated on their own betterment, they might just have gotten somewhere in life.
I took my fair share of bitching from some people while in jc and another bunch in uni. It was far worst in uni, that's when Victor got me into reading Sun Tzu's Art of War. There was one simple rule I applied to the whole situation:
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
The last 2 years it was pretty much the last one which was my modus operandi soon it'll be the first 3.
If success == what society expects us to do in life then isn't that a limiting factor in this whole game? Anyway who's that swine on the street to tell you how much you should earn or where you should work or what car you should drive? Very often its people who have achieved nothing in their own lives who pass these comments, maybe its somewhat an ego boost to them. Perhaps if they concentrated on their own betterment, they might just have gotten somewhere in life.
I took my fair share of bitching from some people while in jc and another bunch in uni. It was far worst in uni, that's when Victor got me into reading Sun Tzu's Art of War. There was one simple rule I applied to the whole situation:
風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
The last 2 years it was pretty much the last one which was my modus operandi soon it'll be the first 3.
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