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9-6-article-josuah-the-road-to-success.md (2017B) |
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1 # The Road to Success by josuah |
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3 Success, the holy grail in Life. Many different forms and shapes. |
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4 Marriage? Career? A medal? A stable financial situation? Crossing the |
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5 border and get naturalized? So many facets to that same shiny diamond. |
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7 Or does success mean avoiding failure? In that case, doing nothing means |
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8 no failure, but trying always have more chance to reach whatever one |
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9 names "success". |
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11 If failing means that trying did not lead one as far as hoped for, then |
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12 the next thing to do for getting closer to "success" again is trying |
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13 again, in risk to fail over again. And while so, also going a bit |
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14 closer every time to success. |
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16 What is the landmark that distinguish being very close to actually |
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17 reaching success? Which indicator to use? Is it about completing a large |
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18 project? Fame? A position in the company? And once at the top position of |
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19 a company, one can still say it was a tiny company and the real goal |
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20 always was to be at the head of a great company, and that success will |
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21 be when the company is large enough. |
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23 So if there is no real landmark, if failing is trying but failing to |
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24 reach an impossible goal, then failing is the result of trying whatever |
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25 that leads to. Failure would be the moment that follows any attempt to |
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26 reach the end of a direction. Failure would simply be the moment where |
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27 you look back at where you were before trying, where you are now, and |
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28 the road left to go to reach infinity. |
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30 Success looks similar: trying to move forward, constantly bumping the |
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31 objective further as one get closer to it. Again success is the moment |
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32 where you look at where you are, and estimate how far you've been. If |
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33 success and failure are the same, this suggests that something is wrong |
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34 somewhere. Somehow, the ultimate acheivement of every life is death. |
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36 ## The Road to Success? |
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37 This is the same as the road to Failure: this is Life, it leads to Death. |
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38 Wherever we go, we will be on it as long as we live. So now, may we move |
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39 that idea of Success away so that we can enjoy living our life. |
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