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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.
4 Marriage? Career? A medal? A stable financial situation? Crossing the
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
8 no failure, but trying always have more chance to reach whatever one
9 names "success".
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11 If failing means that trying did not lead one as far as hoped for, then
12 the next thing to do for getting closer to "success" again is trying
13 again, in risk to fail over again. And while so, also going a bit
14 closer every time to success.
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16 What is the landmark that distinguish being very close to actually
17 reaching success? Which indicator to use? Is it about completing a large
18 project? Fame? A position in the company? And once at the top position of
19 a company, one can still say it was a tiny company and the real goal
20 always was to be at the head of a great company, and that success will
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
24 reach an impossible goal, then failing is the result of trying whatever
25 that leads to. Failure would be the moment that follows any attempt to
26 reach the end of a direction. Failure would simply be the moment where
27 you look back at where you were before trying, where you are now, and
28 the road left to go to reach infinity.
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30 Success looks similar: trying to move forward, constantly bumping the
31 objective further as one get closer to it. Again success is the moment
32 where you look at where you are, and estimate how far you've been. If
33 success and failure are the same, this suggests that something is wrong
34 somewhere. Somehow, the ultimate acheivement of every life is death.
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36 ## The Road to Success?
37 This is the same as the road to Failure: this is Life, it leads to Death.
38 Wherever we go, we will be on it as long as we live. So now, may we move
39 that idea of Success away so that we can enjoy living our life.