The Deceitful Ideology of Success

Many are unsuccessful because they stumbled upon this 1 corrupt modern principle? Are you one of them?

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Everyone loves looking at successful people like Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates, Marc Andreessen.

I, myself tend to do the same and I have to say, it’s not bad if you just looking at them as an inspiration.

Many aspiring entrepreneurs, business leaders, visionaries try hard to follow the same exact footsteps of our today leaders.

It may sound counter-intuitive but everyone who is searching for success needs to create their own path.

Not agreeing with what I am saying?

Then, break this down into smaller increments:

Marc Andreessen was the first person to create an online web browser which dented the way of using the computer. No one before had planned to create a web browser and obviously, no one who drew a mock-up or created a prototype for Andreesson to rely on.

He became successful because of the impact he made and not because he went on and copied someone else.

If you have been one of my early readers you might have recalled one of my viral articles in “Becoming a Rebel Entrepreneur” and might be questioning why I have been talking about how entrepreneurs should create but also imitate and innovate”.

Well, you can also do that if you think your startup has a chance of influencing the market and changing the way things are played.

For this situation, I’d like to reference Friendster. A company who had so much impact on the social media market sector — holding 45+ million users on its platform. Now, Facebook comes along and totally wrecks the market and expanded the market space causing Friendster to leave us this notice —

Yup! That was how Friendster ended!

In the notice they exclaimed:

“We have thus made the decision to take a break and pause our services effective June 14, 2015.”

And I, personally don’t think they are coming back.

Facebook is another great example of how they did not copy anyone and now moved forward to leading the market.

If you really eager to copy another company you better be really loved by the market consumers and better bring out more value then anyone else.

But, just understand:

Not everyone glows at the same time and not everyone will be successful just because they followed the steps of a successful individual.

The moon and the sun both shine but at their own time!

So, don’t compare yourself to another individual just keep up with the hustling, stay positive and don’t procrastinate.

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