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Cruddy
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So dead people are successful huh?
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Cruddy
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What if you're wrong?
Anyway, what's so great about the pinnacle of success? Once you are there it's all down hill anyway.
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Cruddy
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Originally posted by The diplomat
But isn't life about finding success or happiness? Isn't it the purpose of life? |
If it is, most people have crap lives...
Maybe the pursuit is what life is about, not the actual gaining of success.
Anyway, even if was talking about living people, where does that leave the insane, coma cases and CJD sufferers? They're hardly celebrity material - well, maybe one or 2 celebrities fit in those cases but it's not like they're great interviw subjects on chat shows.
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Cruddy
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It would be nice to have some background on this guy to judge his words. Was he successful at anything?
Sorry to be lame, the name doesn't ring a bel.
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Soul Survivor
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UChicago
May 2003
time: 05:29
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if you think you've achieved the pinnacle of success, you haven't
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Cruddy
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quote:
Originally posted by The diplomat
The quote is not saying that only the poor and the unknown are succesfull. It is saying that you can be successful without obsessing about money or popularity.
The person who is content with his job and his life will probably be happier than the person who obsesses about not making enough money or not getting invited to enough social events. That is what the quote is about, IMO.
Just look at the Hollywood celebrities. They have millions of dollars, live in amazing houses, and are worshipped by thousands of adoring fans, and yet many of them are absolutely miserable. |
How many of these celebs give away their wealth, throw off their family ties, and go be happy bums behind 7-11s then?
Not many. Gee, you'd have thought THEY might have read this guy.
After careful consideration, I have to admit that he's right - if you are happy, then it's pointless to want those 3 things.
Mind you, next time the sh1t hits the fan and you suddenly aren't happy anymore, they become important pretty quick.
And is it the one who wrote "the electric kool-aid acid test" which I have heard of, or the one who didn't?
I'm still none the wiser. Is it Thom or Thomas? You quote shows Tom, the website shows Thomas, and I'm left thinking a guy I might be teneously aware of wrote something I learned the hard way anyway.
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Ook! Ook! Ack! Ack! Ack!
Jun 2002
time: 05:29
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After careful consideration, I have to admit that he's right - if you are happy, then it's pointless to want those 3 things.
Mind you, next time the sh1t hits the fan and you suddenly aren't happy anymore, they become important pretty quick. |
The quote says nothing of happiness, it addresses success... I, for one, deliniate those two things differently. I view success as away to bring hapiness through those 3 things. Not having to worry about those 3 things sure ca bring happiness, that's for sure, but it does not equate to succes in my opinion, nor does it gaurentee hapiness.
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Cruddy
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No I don't. I'd never heard of the guy till 3 and a half hours ago.
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