[HN Gopher] On the value of not reaching your goals
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       On the value of not reaching your goals
        
       Author : marban
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2023-06-15 16:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | ftxbro wrote:
       | contrarian clickbait
        
       | ljlolel wrote:
       | "While doing the reporting for my book, I read a postmortem from
       | a successful startup founder. They said something along the lines
       | of: "One of the best things that can happen to you is to achieve
       | professional success when you're young. That way you can learn
       | that it does little to change your happiness." For better or
       | worse, achieving your goals shows you that no material
       | accomplishment will fundamentally alter who you are."
        
       | zitterbewegung wrote:
       | This is the epitome of what a New Yorker article basically is.
       | Playing devils advocate sure you can reassess your goals and
       | pivot them but even those things become flexes. So the writer is
       | right and really the article could be summarized as : Fail fast
       | and reassess your goals to achieve something better.
       | 
       | Either that or : How to write for the New Yorker by not getting
       | in the NYT best seller list.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | > _Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is
       | also easy to handle: You 've solved the wrong problem. Work hard
       | to improve._ -- AJP
        
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