You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.
If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.
It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.
If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.