Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, “Men simply don’t think!”
It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to, dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth … a land of abundant opportunity for everyone.
However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the time they’re 65? These 100 people believe they’re going to be successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting adventure to them.
But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich, four will be financially independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be broke and depending on others for life’s necessities.
Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans … and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished?
First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I’ve ever been able to find: “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that’s what he or she wants to do. A success is the entrepreneur who start his own company because that was his dream and that’s what he wanted to do. A success is the salesperson who wants to become the best salesperson in his or her company and sets forth on the pursuit of that goal.
A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that’s what he or she decided to do … deliberately. But only one out of 20 does that! The rest are “failures.”
Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book called Man’s Search for Himself, and in this book he says: “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity and people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
We learn to read by the time we’re seven. We learn to make a living by the time we’re 30. Often by that time we’re not only making a living, we’re supporting a family. And yet by the time we’re 65, we haven’t learned how to become financially independent in the richest land that has ever been known. Why? We conform! Most of us are acting like the wrong percentage group and the 95 who don’t succeed.
Cooper Martinez
Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and why others don’t seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the “magic touch.” You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful? And, on the other hand, have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?
The difference is goals. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple. Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances … by things that happen to them … by exterior forces.
Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take and it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship and just like the first and only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach and a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the naval convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation.
Andrew Sanchez
That’s why it’s so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular brains or talent to make a living and support a family today. We have a plateau of so-called “security.” So, to succeed, all we must do is decide how high above this plateau we want to aim.
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement and the key to success and the key to failure is this:
We become what we think about.
Nicholas Russell
This is The Strangest Secret! Now, why do I say it’s strange, and why do I call it a secret? Actually, it isn’t a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That’s why it’s strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.
Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait … a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
William James said: “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.” He continues, ” … only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
My old friend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: “If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.” George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
Joshua Turner
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? We become what we think about. A person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that’s what he’s thinking about. Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he’s going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear, and worry will thereby create a life of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing … he becomes nothing.
As ye sow and so shall ye reap.
The human mind is much like a farmer’s land. The land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care what is planted. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision. The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant. If the farmer plants too seeds and one a seed of corn, the other nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen?
Jordan Gray
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants and one corn, one poison as it’s written in the Bible, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.”
The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant … success … or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal … or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.
The problem is that our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value.
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free and our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.
Our mind can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big ones. So decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life.
Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go places in your company … in your community? Do you want to get rich? All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.
Carson Reyes
It not only will, there’s no way that it cannot. You see, that’s a law and like the laws of Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity. If you get on top of a building and jump off, you’ll always go down and you’ll never go up.
And it’s the same with all the other laws of nature. They always work. They’re inflexible. Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal.
Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts. We are where we are because that’s exactly where we really want or feel we deserve to be and whether we’ll admit that or not. Each of us must live off the fruit of our thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow and next month and next year and will mold your life and determine your future. You’re guided by your mind.
Logan Perez
I remember one time I was driving through eastern Arizona and I saw one of those giant earthmoving machines roaring along the road with what looked like 30 tons of dirt in it and a tremendous, incredible machine and and there was a little man perched way up on top with the wheel in his hands, guiding it. As I drove along I was struck by the similarity of that machine to the human mind. Just suppose you’re sitting at the controls of such a vast source of energy. Are you going to sit back and fold your arms and let it run itself into a ditch? Or are you going to keep both hands firmly on the wheel and control and direct this power to a specific, worthwhile purpose? It’s up to you. You’re in the driver’s seat. You see, the very law that gives us success is a doubleedged sword. We must control our thinking. The same rule that can lead people to lives of success, wealth, happiness, and all the things they ever dreamed of and that very same law can lead them into the gutter. It’s all in how they use it … for good or for bad. That is The Strangest Secret!
Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told us to do: pay the price, by becoming the person you want to become. It’s not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you’re immediately a successful person and you are then in that rare group of people who know where they’re going. Out of every hundred people, you belong to the top five. Don’t concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal and leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Start today. You have nothing to lose and but you have your whole life to win.
Jackson Hill
bump for potential
Ethan Cooper
Only the actually intelligent on Sup Forums will recognize this as a literal essay on meme magic
Ayden Johnson
Most people are losers. Dumb idiot losers. We out paced the predation of war. Capitalism made the herd valuable.
Not that hard to understand.
Wyatt Ortiz
True to an extent but incredibly reductionist leaving out a lot of variables.
Andrew Smith
"...but eek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you."
Who are you to call a man who chose to seek the Righteousness of God and serve Him forsaking Earthly riches a loser?
Samuel Gutierrez
I've found this to be utter bullshit. 99% of rich/successful people normally had money in the first place or had a massive amount of connections.
Their lowest level would always be higher than 99% of people as they start on a higher level... their ancestors have already done the groundwork for them.
Levi Moore
can I get a TL;DR
Lincoln Miller
every defeatist faggot really says the same thing
YEAH BUT XYZ IS WHY I FAIL YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME MORE DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS
this conformity and claiming an external locus of control was called out in the OP and you did it anyway. fucking sad
Gabriel Lee
"If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results."
Stop thinking why you can't be successful and start thinking why you CAN be successful.
Thats some boomer tier bullshit and thats how millenials grew up to be """entitled""" by a bunch of pie in the sky cocksuckers in the first place. fuck the carrot and fuck the stick.
Its old timey subversion burn it down.
Hunter Sullivan
>b-but successful people have rich parents.
of course, but it's not because their parents are rich. that's just a symptom of the cause.
to be successful, you really only need two things: 115-130+ IQ high conscientiousness (work ethic)
having both is rare. both are largely determined by genetics.
guess who gives you genetics? your fucking parents. losing money is just as likely as gaining money. but you ave less than 98th percentile genetics, so of course I had to explain this to you.
Nolan Price
>But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich
Either a rat-faced Jew or a Mason. We live in their crooked game.
Xavier Garcia
The United States is a military state with a government designed to go to the highest bidder. You don't understand where wealth comes from if you think it's just a matter of thinking positive. Is it worth squeezing the third world dry of their blood, so that a handful of Jews can luxuriate above us? Oh, at least they threw us some bones. We sure couldn't have heating or electricity without our cherished, sadistic fiat wizards. The people we exploit were just thinking negative, right?
Ethan Howard
>losing money is just as likely as gaining money.
i need to elaborate on what i meant by this. preventing the loss of money is a skill just like gaining money is a skill. look at lottery winners (and their children) - they tend to lose it.
look at people who are generally productive - they tend to always have money, even if they get wiped out. the jews who came to america reached income parity *in 4 years*. i've been to other countries with very little money and ended up making more than the local median income in less tan a year. it's because i won the genetic lottery with IQ and work ethic. sorry goys.
Easton Diaz
How do I join the ((freemasons)) please I really want to know to be part of the elite
Isaac Fisher
>Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, “Men simply don’t think!” > >It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to, dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth … a land of abundant opportunity for everyone. > >However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the time they’re 65? These 100 people believe they’re going to be successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting adventure to them. > >But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich, four will be financially independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be broke and depending on others for life’s necessities. > >Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans … and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished? The answer my dear user is Testosterone. I implore all anons to research the effects of exogenous testosterone on the average male. It changed my life and I can honestly say it was what i needed to turn my life around. Please. Just do your due diligence. Every modern man should take testosterone.
Chase Nguyen
Do you truly and honestly believe that you have applied yourself with your absolute greatest potential to your work and to your life? Do you believe every young man and young woman of this generation applies themselves even at 50% of their potential? In every generation of man we observe those that conform and those that create. The great creators of the world, the great movers, they shape the future we all live in and they indulge in the rewards life has to offer.
You may wallow in your sadness and your despair but life will go on whether you choose to realize your true potential or not. Would you rather suffer and remain still or suffer a little harder and move forward?
Isaiah Perry
well you wrote so much, but all youre doing is implying that anyone in this thread is an underachiever and lecturing them about the benefits of being a superior jew. that my dude is not an argument.
Kayden Johnson
So you're going to allow your politics to hold you back? if you dedicated your life to a goal, and applied yourself as much as you possibly could to that goal, with as much dedication as to stake existence itself for that goal, don't you believe that it could be achieved?
Let me put it this way: You can either be mediocre and keep your politics or you can be extraordinary and keep your politics. There are plenty of men with money that care about the quality of service provided to them and will reward you with that money for doing a good honest job. This money can support you, your family and whatever ideals you hold. They can shape a future that you want.
Life is the greatest novel ever written and you are not only its main character but the author too. So what are you going to write? A tragedy or an epic saga of victory?
Noah Gomez
You're being an idealistic twit. Come back down to reality. By the way, I guarantee I'm financially better off than you. I'd just rather be frank than frilly.
Jaxon Cooper
why do you keep telling everyone in this thread that they are underachieving?
Xavier Price
Read further on and see that you say success depends on a 115-130iq. That is not only above to way above average but also one of the variables i alluded to which was my point.
Nolan Wright
We are all under-achievers my friend. none of us work as hard as we COULD. None of us study and research and prepare as hard as we COULD. None of us improve our lives as well as we COULD. The moment you set a real and honest goal for yourself, write it down on a piece of paper, tape it to a wall and look at it every single morning telling yourself: "This is what I want to achieve." you are a success and you will find success.
Your mind is the greatest gift that anyone could ask for and so many people take it for granted because we get it for free. We value things that cost money and care little for that which is free when the opposite is the true realm of value.
That which is worth money is easily replaced but that which we got for free, our mind and our spirit, are irreplaceable.
Anthony Powell
This isnt even politics, shit this isnt even /bant/ I dont know if we even have a board for door to door motivational speakers, but this is retarded and I hope you arent trying to wedge your ass on our board for youtube views. you sure as fuck arent going to make friends and influence people. I bet youre like 60 and trying to help but the redpill is you and people like you need to die quicker. fuck off mah board SAGAY
Jack Gutierrez
I'd rather care too much for my ideals than too little. I am not content with my lot in life and I will not be held back by the lowest common denominator of "acceptable livelihood". Success does not come from wealth but vice-versa: Wealth comes endlessly for he who is successful and so much more if he only would seek these things genuinely and with the full power of his human will.
Daniel Morgan
People are more likely to lose their inheritance than grow it. Fuck off with your lies commie.
Nathaniel Thomas
Lmao. There is far more to life than stereotypical gook cartoon themes like "the fighting human spirit". Factors that will always be out of your control. Influence is determined by fiat wealth within our borders and if you aren't in the top few percent you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Not saying it to condescend. I wouldn't wish for such disgusting income disparity but the most realistic thing I can do is accept and work within the system I was born into. It's dumb to twist a game that clearly not everyone can win into a personal struggle of will. Many people are hard up and it's not entirely their fault.
Bentley Ross
It's not your fault where you begin but it is very much your fault where you end. Believe what you want to believe, I can not stop you. I can only hope that if you ever grow dissatisfied by your environment, you will give these words a second thought and consider them. We are the masters of our own destiny and when we take full control there is no limit to what can be accomplished. I am not satisfied by mediocrity in my own life, but that is a decision that every man must make for himself.
Levi Richardson
Do babies that die lack the will to achieve? Or maybe outside factors have a little more power over their lives than they do themselves? Maybe everyone is relatively tiny and defenseless like a baby.
Jaxson King
Good thread, I generally agree with what you're saying even though I don't necessarily practice what you preach
Joshua Ward
Thanks for the lesson OP self-improvement is the true redpill, and it's truly amazing how Sup Forums of all places can give this kind of advice and motivation.
David Garcia
while most of this is helpful meme magic.the end of this reads like a self help book. life doesnt give you what you want just because you imagine it, you need to arm yourself with the tools to think critically, and a certain ruthlessness, on which you spend your time. by simply imagining you already have your goal you instead foil yourself,. allowing your mind to grasp an immitation of the real thing, that is why we play games, watch movies, to feel the excitement of successes and wonders and failures that we will never taste in truth.
it is therefore bad advice to imagine successful activities, and instead you should be imagining behaviors that can aid you in your decided goals.
