Only The Paranoid Survive Complacency
Are you settling for less?
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” ~ Andy Grove, via MoveMe Quotes
The problem with complacency isn’t that you don’t get anything new or different from what you already have—it’s that you stop trying to solve interesting problems that are new or different from what you already have. And you end up solving the same damn problems over and over again.
Sometimes we become so complacent with our way of living that we forget we ever even wanted anything different. Has this happened to you? Ask yourself: Am I realizing a life of my dreams or am I settling for a life that is—slowly, subtly, connivingly—becoming just a surrendered-to norm?
This is the danger with complacency: it doesn’t happen fast—it happens painstakingly slow.
It carefully sneaks up on you. It precisely increases by one millimeter per day and, like a child, never noticeably grows until one day—you look back and see they’ve went through a growth spurt! If you’re not careful, complacency will grow inside of you all the same.
The distinguishing feature of the paranoid is that they are constantly aware— hyper aware—of what’s happening around them. Without awareness, complacency can more easily sneak in…
