How will you feel at your school reunion ?
Lets explode a few myths first. I’ve not been reading Robin Sharma and ‘literature’ like “Who will cry when you die?”. Nor is this post toally original.
I was just bloghopping merrily from one blog to other, where I found this very interesting post. The post interested me for two particular reasons. One – the blog header. Two – Seth Godin. I’ve always been a admirer of Godin. So more on him later.
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Richard Millington while trying to bag an internship with Seth Godin came up with an excellent post which I feel deserves to be shared.
Someone will have a better job than you.
Someone will have a more attractive spouse than you.
Someone will have a better home than you.
Someone will be more famous than you.
So what?
Measuring yourself against others is dumb. It creates tension, rivalry and you might end up chasing someone else’s goals just to beat him.
The only thing you should measure yourself against are your own objectives. Are you where you want to be in life? Are you as far along in your strategy as you should be?
The moment you begin comparing yourself against others, you have missed the point of having a dream.
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The profoundness of it all lies in the simplicity. When was the last time you did something because you really wanted to do it and not because everyone around you was doing the same ?
I’m bit of an eccentric individual. And from what I realize that my ‘dreams’ are different than that of most people around me. Not greater, not lesser, not more important. But just plain different. And when almost everybody is doing things just for the doing things part of it, this post was a treat for sore eyes. And well as far as Godin goes, he’s one of the finest innovators and speakers of the present day. In advertising, there is a very famous line which goes like – Take Leo Burnett and David Ogilvy. Combine their intelligence and shave off their heads. You’ll get Seth Godin. All about the man here. Just Italicised the entire post for no rhyme or reason. An innovation Godin would certainly approve of. Look out for some minor beautification of the blog in a few days’ time. Till then, take care. And go bald.
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no way, not going bald.
and I like the above quote. Makes a lot of sense. Yep, you do see people around you chasing something that isn’t theirs.
nice
There was this time when i’d really want to better people…successful many a tym…’Someone’ part of it really bothered me too…but have finally found peace within…nd it’s gr8…
‘Eccentricity’ and ‘Different’ are relative terms….i find my thought process normal and sane..it all makes sense to me..others dnt…it’s only now when i’ve found a lot of similar ppl arnd and i look out for answers in them…indirectly…the obscurity seems to be giving way to answers to the important question of ‘heart vs mind’..
neways..can tlk a lot on dis1..neways..good one
“I’m bit …. But just plain different.”
It makes everything that I go through all the time fall in place…n this thing of trying to search for a relevance in every blogpost is zany..outright stupid…but it cdnt be more coherent n befitting for a confused soul like me…i alwyz elude dis question as to wht i really wana do…abt doing things for the ‘doin’ part of it-i dnt c whr it stops…*sigh*
n like anna said..its smthn i can talk a lot abt…already causing the pg to upload a tad slower thn b4! a gr8 gr8 post…
More often than not i forget to fill in the details…its me,Shraddha…
I just read something in ‘The Fountainhead’ pertaining to people leading a ’second-hand’ life. Remind me to quote it later.
check my blog. have put up the quote there.
unsuccessful*
:-p