Thought For The Day: Success Is Not Straightforward
Demetri Martin wants us to know that success is not what we think it is: A straight line to infinity. Whether it’s a person or a company, everyone thinks that the meteoric rise of success won’t have a single bump. But seriously, when in your life have you had a day that went that smoothly??? If no one’s had this experience (and I’m pretty sure that few can make this claim), then why would expect a successful plan to take the shape of a straight line rising forever?
Remember this scene from the movie, Armageddon? AJ, Lev, and Bear wanted to take a short cut to get over the field of daggers (OK, so you probably don’t remember the movie being in Slovakian – but it’s the right scene – so, let’s learn a new language! :D)
Notice the meteoric rise was not as they’d planned it. Yup, this is pretty much what success looks and feels like. Or, you can just take a look at the Demetri’s image to see success distilled into a chart. Which success have you experiences? Mine have pretty much fallen on the latter version…
What success really looks like is a really good reminder to keep moving forward, because you’ll eventually get past the tangled part of the plan.
– thanks to this isn’t happiness for the hilarious chart
