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Success Isn’t Linear: Don’t Let Anyone Fool You With Habits of The Successful and Unsuccessful
Time to burst the bubble of the modern day sophists.
If I had a pound for those who love quoting 10 habits of successful people in this space, I would have million pounds.
Quite possibly a billion pounds.
The notion that all successful people do the very same thing to get to where they have is a complete nonsense.
I dare say bull shit.
The problem here lies with our very definition of success.
Dan Price’s idea of success certainly isn’t the same as Jeff Bezos; one is ethical, pays his staff a living wage and gets by and the other screws his staff, gives them no breaks, houses them in a facility which collapses and kills them, and still does nothing to address the longstanding issue of his staff’s health and safety.
And yet, the world according to Fox News, wants us to see Jeff Bezos as being the successful one and Dan Price as the loser. I write this because you should read the level of trolling that Mr. Price gets online.
Back in my days in employment society, I used to wake up 3 am to workout religiously and get to work at 5 30 to work all day. I started and completed several projects successfully, brought…