You need a personal definition of success. Looking around you to see if you’re succeeding is no longer a realistic option. Trying to be a relative su… - Eric Barker

You need a personal definition of success. Looking around you to see if you’re succeeding is no longer a realistic option.

As the old saying goes, “You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything.

Walker Smith of Yankelovich Partners told The Wall Street Journal, “Right now, there’s no aspiration to be middle class. Everyone wants to be at the top.” We probably have far more now than we ever had in the past, but we’re probably not much happier. And instinctively we think the problem can still be fixed by more. More money. More food. More things. Just more. We’re not even sure what we need more of, but whatever we have now sure as hell isn’t doing it, so turn it up to eleven, Bertha.

You’ve got to pick the environments that work for you . . . context is so important. The unfiltered leader who is an amazing success in one situation will be a catastrophic failure in the other, in almost all cases.