Caution — A Success Story Lies Ahead

Vighnesh Nayak
Nov 3 · 7 min read

Success stories should make you nervous and suspicious. They are a ploy of the cunning, the tool of the powerful and the trap of the charlatan to influence you into a particular way of thinking.

Stories have the social power to influence your thinking. The best stories, often, are the ones that tend to evoke strong emotions after reading them. Human life is boring and the purpose of a story is to…

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Vighnesh Nayak

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