This Is Why “Dissatisfaction With Yourself” Makes You Insanely Successful.
Beat your own instincts instead of comparing with others.
It was the time before the 2019 parliament election in India. The prime minister Mr. Narendra Modi was interviewed by a TV channel. I learned incredible lessons from his interview. I liked the one thing Mr. Modi recounted.
He said. “Satisfaction is the feeling of being enough, and if you’re satisfied with the work, you take it lazy. So, I never caught in the trap. I’ve a constant need to work better than yesterday. I work for people and never satisfy for what I’ve done. It’s okay to embrace, but your need for “working better” comes from the dissatisfaction.”
Mr. Modi works 18 hours a day, and he goes for only three hours of sleep. That’s the record of 70 years of history of the government of India. No prime minister sweated that hard.
Even Barack Obama questioned him. “Why are you taking less sleep? It’s dangerous for health.”
I never witnessed such a prime minister who only devoted to people.
I learned this numerous lesson from the interview. I always perceived that if you’re satisfied with what you’ve. It’s the ultimate way to be happy.
Actually, we’re taking things wrong. Let’s understand this perspective deeply.
Dissatisfaction Doesn’t Mean Discontentment.
See, discontentment and dissatisfaction are different.
Suppose, you have a million dollars, but still you’re not content. You think if you're more, you’ll be happy. Means, you never content with what you’ve.
Dissatisfaction arises from real-life situations. If you’re not happy, that means you’re dissatisfied, and you try harder to change that situation. You can content and dissatisfied at the same time.
If you really not being enough, you feel dissatisfied with your efforts. You really lack something.
You feel satisfied for achievements, but more you’ve, more lightly you take. I experienced that once I’ve enough articles, I feel lazy or take more time to finish continued work. I use one technique to do more. I write two-three articles per day and leave as it is. Then, I edit them. So, it builds constant dissatisfaction of rough drafts.
Discontentment is deeper than that. It’s an emotional attachment with life.
Beat Your Own Instincts Instead Of Comparing With Others.
Most people compare their life with others. We naturally check our progress with fellow colleagues. But that leads to jealousy, envy, and other emotional predicaments.
What I’ve observed differences in highly successful and mediocre people is dissatisfaction with their own instincts.
Highly successful people coordinate their records with themselves. They defeat their past achievements. They track progress with past weeks while mediocre people unsatisfied with others. They compare their income, status or growth with others.
That’s why highly successful people want to be a CEO, and ordinary people want to be a manager.
I am not bombarding you with examples, but you should compare your results with your past.
When I write articles, I check every time that it’s better than the previous one. And I do it better every time. I change small details in every piece and do something better.
This is the key to being yourself. And if you compare your work with others, you feel inferior because you’re rivaling your work with 5 years old experienced.
Most people make a mistake here. They feel dissatisfaction but not in the right way.
It’s natural to check out your progress with fellow colleagues but do it with the same experienced and not for comparison purpose, but to learn something.
If you beat yesterday’s work, you’ve infinite possibilities. You don’t feel afraid of competition.
Your subconscious mind has the power to find opportunities to deal with your previous records.
Dissatisfaction Helps You To Be Creative.
Dissatisfaction leads to diverse personality traits. If you worry about your prior record, you think more today. And as much as you consider a specific situation, you’ll have clear answers.
You develop amazing skill-set if you just beat your records.
Why it’s creative? Because you’re relating your mistakes with yourself. So, yesterday is one day less experienced than today.
See, life doesn’t work in liner way, so creativity doesn’t reflect straightforward. Suppose, if your business is working fine, but tomorrow it won’t work that way. Your last article may be better, and next will be worse. It’s possible but important is to fight for improving your mistakes.
You can see a clear difference between those who’ve successful and insanely successful. Legends have problems with their own stuff.
I never see a highly successful person who associates his success with another one. He only talks about what he did and how to do it better.
And the significant difference is a gap. You can’t beat a highly successful person because they’re so unique and excellent at their art. If you work for those long years, still you lack one or more aspects.
Can you copy Pablo Picasso or Beethoven? If you work those hours, still you can’t.
It happens because of dissatisfied self. They’ve constant thoughts to change something. Something is not going well, they spend days and night with the same ideas and work for it. The feeling of doing better takes your progress extra mile.
Let’s be dissatisfied.
“I want to change this, I hate this. What it’s like to be. What if I can do this?” This is dissatisfied self.
It’s beneficial. It’s a constant source of motivation.
One thing is crucial. Don’t relate it with discontentment. Once you feel work, just work, but live your life at the same time. Your success, your achievements, your records are still that glorious. It’s embracing.
And you must develop contentment to be happy because your work or achieve more won’t make you sad or happy. It’s your perspective about life and happiness determine the difference.
It’s okay to have dissatisfaction in yourself. Because achievements make you lazy.
