I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.
Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.
I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed.
I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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