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"Success" is kind of an illusion at face value, since it's really moving through adversity, obstacles, and roadblocks. You can take any social class and they can be "Successful" it just depends on the people around them.<br />
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Since where is adversity, obstacles, and roadblocks created? It usually interacting with others and they're point of view of what "Success" means from their perspective, their conditioning, their belief system, what they have been taught to succeed.<br />
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Success is really subjective to interpretation. Since if you just take the Manager, the Supervisor, and the Entrepreneur/Boss in any company they have three different points of view on leadership, responsibility, how things are done to complete a task, and they get into arguments and disagreements.<br />
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Say you have five managers, five supervisors, and one Boss running the show. The top guy knows how to do everything and can lead them all, makes tougher choices and decisions. The Supervisors might have a certain percent of the knowledge but still growing into that higher knowledge,, wisdom, and insight.<br />
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The Managers kind of are what you see at face value the most on the floor and they sometimes get into it, because they do things differently.<br />
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Now you have a forum here of all three, and when you ask about how they do things, and how they became successful the road will be different. They didn't all get there the same way. As M.J."s books tell his story, but then if everyone wrote a book in here about their journey it would not be the same.<br />
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It would have similarities perhaps. It would have maybe some of the same informational products they've read and courses, but the actual process and journey would never be the exact same journey.<br />
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They might be able to compare notes and say this worked or that didn't work, but bottom line, Success doesn't just happen the same way for everyone.<br />
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Even the niches, categories, professions, are different. The amount of wealth is different.<br />
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As you can point out the financial information books out there, and they will tell you what is crap and what is legit.<br />
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Just reading all my life, since I am a life long learner, I know that usually when you read a book, the author is talking about their specific journey, they add whatever they put with the journey, and tell you XYZ and you might find out there is half truths or blatant crap, or truth in those books.<br />
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As Success kind of goes with process. Sure you can run around baseball diamond multiple times, but unless you know the game well enough, practice, train, and do everything in your power to become the best baseball player the "Success" is two different things.<br />
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You can run around the baseball field and your successful, but then you can be the top baseball player and hit the ball out of the park every single time if that makes sense.<br />
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As an Entrepreneur once told me back in 2012, that in sports they sometimes go to places like Africa for runners just because they do it every day because of the adversity in their local area, and they might be the Olympic runner that beats all those at your local track in your neighborhood.<br />
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The one in the neighborhood might look like they are the star of the show, but then you put him next to the one from Africa they might get beat and not as successful just because the one has more strength, agility, and better timing because they didn't begin with the sport in the first place. They just did every day carrying stuff long-distance or having to travel by walking or running.<br />
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As Bear Bryant new this as well with the Junction Boys. Although, it was controversial at the time, he knew only the one's who could stay in the adversity, obstacles, and roadblocks would get to the end zone. If you quit during half-time, then you didn't make the team.
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</blockquote>Great stuff. Thank you.<br />
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You're basically saying how we measure success and how we perceive success differs from person to person.<br />
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You put a top high school football striker in front of Sunday league amateurs, he's gonna be brilliant and look like he's the next Ronaldo because he's destroying them. But you put him next to a world class defender like Virgil Van Dijk or Sergio Ramos, and he's gonna look like a flop or an average player in the Premier League. <br />
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Same thing with basketball players. You see this all the time in the NBA. A guy is brilliant in high school/college and then he comes into the NBA and is just an average player because of the higher level of quality in the league.<br />
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Success is also relative too. What is a lot of money to you might be different for me. For someone who's from a 3rd world country like India or Pakistan, making $100k a year as a software developer is gonna feel a lot different than someone who's making $500k a year in Switzerland as a plastic surgeon.<br />
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And the road to success is also different for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Entrepreneurs are the founders who build them from level 0, and then they hire CFOs or Marketing Managers at top positions in their company and then they're gonna hire subordinate managers to manage basic level operations. An entrepreneur/founder is gonna have a totally different perspective from the CFO, and the CFO who's gonna manage 20-30 managers is gonna have a different perspective than the manager.</div>
