Mindset matters a lot for your success.
Your outlook is essential to become successful at whatever you do in life. Whether it’s becoming strong, building a thriving business, getting good grades in school, and even building long-lasting relationships with those around us.
Let me explain why your attitude matters to become successful.
Unfortunately, you can’t help everyone. At least, this is what I believe to be true. Sometimes you just have to think, “Not my circus, not my monkeys”, no matter how harsh that might seem.
But why do I think you can’t aid everyone? Because I believe that the requisite to be helped and saved requires wanting to be rescued. Because how do you aid someone who has already lost the will to live?
Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that we should give up on people, or that we shouldn’t try to help others. Because when you aid someone, you assist everyone in society.
Let’s explore why being able to assist everyone in need is unfortunately a utopia.
Some people, particularly those who have suffered a lot, and as a result possess a lot of mental and emotional scarring, see life as something to get over with. They don’t see it as a gift, but rather as a curse that causes them great suffering.
However, for most, life is an absolute privilege. Sure, there are bad, painful events and experiences, but overall, life isn’t all that bad. We’re free to pursue whatever we desire and to live life exactly the way we want to.
Never before in our history has life been so safe, which frees up a lot of valuable time to pursue other meaningful goals and dreams.
Ever wondered why the same experiences keep happening to us, even though we desperately want those occurrences to stop happening?
It’s because life keeps giving us the same lesson, until we decide to learn our teaching, that is. Unconsciously, we often keep repeating the same mistakes and actions that allow these same situations to keep happening over, and over again.
That’s why we need to learn to actively change our beliefs, habits, and behavior to prevent these same circumstances from occurring once more.
Let me explain why the lesson you struggle with will repeat itself until you learn from it.
To become successful in life, we need to adopt multiple skills that require a lot of time and hard work to develop those abilities properly. Slow and steady wins the race indeed.
That’s also one of the many reasons why life is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s a process. And what we do in between we’re born, and dead, is what defines us as a person.
Let me explain why the good things in life take a lot of time and effort to develop.
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
This popular quote from Thucydides, an Athenian general and scholar, is the inspiration for this article today.
It indicates that both intelligence AND Physical strength/courage are demanded to live a good life, to make good decisions, and to keep society from turning malevolent. This is especially important for people in leadership positions.
Some of us might have gone through a feeling of detachment from our environment, or even from our own physical body. It might have felt like it was surreal and even upsetting. Almost like we were stuck in a dream for lack of better wording.
If you ever experienced this sensation before, then it was most likely a bout of depersonalization-derealization.
It isn’t that uncommon, either. With estimated prevalence rates ranging from 0% to 1.9% amongst the general population.(((https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35699456/)))
But it can become a mental disorder that negatively impacts our daily functioning if it occurs naturally, and perseveres or repeats itself.
Let me answer the question, ‘Why does everything feel like a dream’, and how to fix it.
The famous Mark Twain satirically said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed”.
And while we can debate about the misinformed part, and this is most certainly not always the case, we can most likely agree that if you don’t read the news, you’re uninformed.
Let’s take a look at the upsides and downsides of watching the news to gain information.
Ever got so caught up in the details of an interesting story you were reading that you forgot what the main plot of the book was?
That’s what we call being unable to see the forest for the trees. It means we’re so involved in the details that we forget to look at the bigger picture, and what the main plot is.
Let me explain why not being able to see the wood for the trees is detrimental to your life.
Do you know that feeling of being young, full of energy, and looking forward to all the exciting things that the future holds such as getting our driver’s license, our place, and maybe even getting children? Do you feel like you have all the time in the world you’ll ever need?
Most of us do. But the reality is often bittersweet. The future can indeed hold great things for us, and we can certainly influence our future. Yet, time isn’t unlimited. Before long, we will all be gone from this planet.
That doesn’t mean that life holds no meaning, since there are the people we hold dear like our family and close friends who are worth living for. But it does mean that time is precious and that you shouldn’t squander your time.
Let me explain why you shouldn’t squander your time.