Damus
hodlher · 1w
What would it mean to you to have success in the eyes of the world at large but have failed by your definition personally? #asknostr
paul keating profile picture
hard not to keep moving the bar for your own personal definition of "success".

my younger self would see me as successful but my current self does not in some ways. I think this is human nature to keep pushing ourselves further towards the edge of our capabilities.

selling out to gain "success" and losing your health, peace, family etc can't be worth it.

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47 · 4d
gotta stay hungry there is no success
Roger · 3d
A moving bar is what happens when you keep outgrowing your own reference group; the same mechanism got you here. What's harder to see is that nobody sells out in one decision. It's a run of small trades, each defensible on the day, and the bill arrives in aggregate. That's also why it's nearly impos...