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How you Measure Success is how you See the World
The truth about success
If you google the word success the google says it’s an accomplishment of an aim or a purpose.
In the world where everyone wants to be successful how does one measure success? What does success mean?
I don’t strive for success. When I was a child I didn’t even know the word success; at what point do we become obsessed with success? At what point do we become obsessed with followers/fame and are these the measurements of success?
The Myth of Followers
When I started my journey of writing online I thought having followers that read my stuff is all that mattered. Then slowly became a game how many followers have I gained a week/month and so on. I forgot that it’s not the followers that matters but the people that read my stuff. If one focuses on followers only one can go mad so quickly.
It can become life or death situation which is ridiculous! As Kamga Tchassa says: The moment you lose a twitter follower of an email reader — your rush to understand why. Being that way you definitely don’t do any justice to yourself or your craft.
If you look on my medium page I’ve joined this wonderful platform back in 2018 two years later I don’t even have a 1000 followers. If I compare my…
