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dark com, Benjamin Hardy Nominal jump right into today's contents. Let's get right to it Our optimizing, your life, How do you go from successful, two very successful and why most people can't do it Benjamin hardy of Benjamin Hardy dark. Come success, is an obsession Why do people want it more than anything else and they'll sacrifice everything to have it, which is often the cost of admission, but there's a problem sustaining success and going beyond success. It nearly impossible for most people, hence Gregg Mchugh and author of a centralism questions, why dont successful people and organizations automatically become very successful because The answer is succinct success as a catalyst for failure Being invisible is easy. When you make mistakes you're, the only one who notices you and being the underdog is easy. If he failure justified in doing so. Well,

the spotlight is on you. Everyone is waiting for you to fail. The external pressure often becomes who overpowering smothering the values and vision it took to become successful in the first place, which is why success is often a short lived experience. People come go very few remain on top for along, for example, only eat. Nfl teams have won the Superbowl back to back. As forty Niners coach Bill Walsh said. The toughest thing I ever had to do was get my team to overcome success, disease when he first Superbowl according to washes enormously easier than winning a second or third, true in all life domains. If you succeed in business, life doesn't get easier, it gets ardor. Success is much harder to deal with then failure,

quote, nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, given power, Abraham Lincoln for most people, privilege is a poison once you succeed or have certain privileges the time money fame accolades. One of two things happens: one your focus shift from the cause of your success to its effects, rather than continuing to hone your craft. You indulge in the benefits of your prior success, which inevitably damages future performance. Hence the saying success gives a generation the children of successful dolen the causes, but only relish in the benefits or two you experience and intensification of internal pressure to keep succeeding. Many people can't handle this level of pay. sure and often ends careers prematurely. Yet this escalation of internal pressure is what prevents a person from being consumed by external noise like distraction that comes with success as well

the hoary former NBA player has said: pressure can burst, the pipe or pressure can make a diamond internal. Not external pressure is what makes you successful. Increasing the pressure is. What keeps you joy success, verses achievement. The difference between success and achievement is sought oh, but crucial success is a subjective feeling about how you doing relative to why you're doin it achievement as an observer. The measure about what you ve actually done. Yet success is are more important than achievement? Indeed, you could have all the achievements in the world and not be successful, you see this all the time We have many external indicators of success, yet inward, they are a rack. They ve lost their. Why and thus, no Remember the reason they are pursuing their goals in the first place. What once was a genuine passion? become a need for more external validation and endlessly to acquire and achieve, or thus, rather than focused.

on why the focused becomes on what will work and doing as much of that as possible, most likely at the expense of your values according to surf goat end quote: Are we want a human being? Does something that might not work and quote? We are focused on what you only care if it works he no longer know why you're doing it. Interestingly, many successful entrepreneurs admit to being happier before they were a quorum quote: successful dyke when their motivations work and grow with their values, achievement, poison them and their motivation changed. When you're motivation shift from.

intrinsic to extrinsic. Your perform is naturally drops over the long run. You may be able to sustain high performance for a while off in that cost to your health relationships and finances from successful to very successful quote. Success is something you attract by the person you become Jim Rohn. If success is your primary objective, you probably won't get it chasing. Success is like hissing happiness. You can't pursue it directly. Both success happiness ensue from something far more fundamental who you are. Success comes from consistency to vision and values, although difficult, because of the added noise I comes from achievement. Becoming very successful requires remaining consistent to your vision and values, who you are when you stay consistent in true you'll, continue to hone your raft, even after you become world class? You say no to all of this.

actions item your way, no matter how enticing they are you only your ear. The one flight every day Who you really are you want a ban, in your values and the most import People in your life. Don't forget your. Why the hardest. You do, as you see, to improve your life. As Ryan Holiday recently set of TIM Ferris, he does what he does, because he enjoys it and he is compelled to create experiment and improve, because that's who he is TIM is still to him. While people are made worse by success, That's a shame. It is suited him well and that's a model I aspire to you just listen to the post titled how to go from successful two very successful whom I most people.

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Asda Podcast became more popular became easier for me to make a living from it by having sponsors, but some of the companies we hear from do not online with our values, so I have to turn them down it's hard to turn those down, because that's what keeps all of this sustainable, producing an editing around one thousand two hundred episodes of the show alone, but I don't want to accept anything because I think that's even less sustainable than accepting money in promoting something that doesn't align with our values. Here I was lucky enough that sponsors last week that I felt were a good fit. That's a big help to keep this running. If I didn't have that, I wouldn't still be doing this. That's enough! For today have a great rest of your day and I'll see you tomorrow or your optimal life away.