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Why?  I’m trying to figure out what is so cool about success whether it’s financial, vocational, relational, whatever that makes us drag ourselves through stress-filled anxious weeks just trying to get to the next week when we can do the same thing.  I’m sure it’s complex but I’m going to try and make it as simple as possible and break it down into little bite-sized nibblets of extremely wise and insightful commentary on the human drive for success.

1.  Bite sized nugget number uno:  AFFIRMATION - everybody needs it and the clearest way to get it is by measuring tangible things like numbers in bank accounts and square footage of houses and top speeds of cars.

2. Bite sized nugget number dos:  VALIDATION - you didn’t think you were going to learn spanish while reading this but validation is closely related to affirmation except that it has more to do with feeling (and convincing yourself) that you are valuable in some way like you can dig a big hole or drive a really long distance or say something that sounds smart or build something really complicated and big.

3. Bite sized nugget number tres:  SOMETHING ELSE - I’m sure there’s some other reason humans run so hard after success like it’s actually worth your time. 

I think humans can live without it as long as you don’t think you failed and that’s why you don’t have it; if you were never trying to have it then I don’t think you could possibly fail since you didn’t get it — like a dog that never became a cat.  You can’t walk up to him in the middle of the day and say “You failed because you never became a cat.”  He was never trying to be a cat because dogs are better than cats, everybody knows that.  That’s going to be one confident dog.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this exploration into pop psychology that kind of makes sense and has you going “….yeah….” by the time you’ve reached the end of our extremely wise discussion. 

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