How to Clear the Obstacles to Success?
In this article, let’s examine a little more deeply that quality which is so similar to fear, but —more precisely— is the dread of being an unsuccessful person. We will also discover that success is an ephemeral, fickle thing, and learn what we need to draw on when that happens.
Success is illusory When I was studying to be a clown in Moscow, we were trained for success and we were even spooked: ‘You might graduate from here as stars! Or you might be nothing at all!’ Our entire philosophy of life is orientated around success. Almost every advertisement plays on your personal happiness. We are often intimidated by our television screens or from billboards. If we don’t buy this lamp, then the way we are living our lives is wrong. If we do not watch this film, then we will be taken for fools. If we do not buy this t-shirt, then we will be unfashionable, and so on. People are afraid of being losers and, as a result, they become losers, living someone else’s life— one that is imposed on them. Everyone aims for success all of the time, they are competing for who is the coolest, the funniest. I even know of one case in which a man died at an international circus festival in Monte-Carlo after he was awarded the sil...Do you have a story to share? Submit your news story, article or press release.