kartooner

Every­thing at work has pretty much been a suc­cess. I’ve been work­ing exten­sively the past few days on a project for a local law firm; tak­ing a crack at it with my trusty HTML whip.

In all hon­esty, I’ve learned more in the past few months from just trial and error. Yet, that’s how it usu­ally is for our species, we learn and suc­ceed by fail­ing. At the same time, we some­times need to take a step back and ulti­mately see how things will shape up on their own instead of try­ing to please everyone.

As Bill Cosby once (or twice, or three times) said:

“I don’t know the key to suc­cess, but the key to fail­ure is try­ing to please everybody.”

If you think about it, Bill couldn’t be more truth­ful. There are many times in life where we feel we’ll only suc­ceed if we please the masses. If you ask any stu­dent of Psy­chol­ogy, he or she will explain that we attain per­sonal achieve­ment by allow­ing our­selves to only achieve at the expense of some­one else’s opinion.

Rather, we should look to suc­cess as a seed. One that needs a bit of com­fort and care to even­tu­ally grow into a tree and in time branch off into other great avenues.