Chapter One. Don’t decide what you want. If you do decide what you want, don’t think about why you want it. And if you do decide why you want it, commit to believing you can’t have it

Let’s start at the beginning. The worst thing you can do, if you are truly committed to being one of life’s failures, is to think clearly about what success means to you. We know that the best failures manage to avoid, at all costs, contemplating this most emotive of words.

On the other hand, it has been proven beyond any doubt, in study after study, that so-called high achievers have clearly defined what they want to do with their lives. And have lots ...

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