One Awfully Ugly Success Truth Most Gurus Don’t Reveal to You

Will you pay the repulsive price of sexy success?

Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous
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6 min readApr 26, 2023

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It’s so tragic, it’s funny.

At 15, I was — skinny-fat, bullied, weak, effeminate, lonely, semi-suicidal, and painfully shy.

Seven years later, my life’s the diametric opposite.

An aesthetic physique. An amazing girlfriend. Trustworthy friends. A lavish income. Charismatic confidence. A luxury SUV. Most crucial of all — God.

15 vs 22 (Photo collage of and by the author)

Shouldn’t I be gushing with joy and shedding tears of gratitude?

But it’s a gloomy existential abyss — with rare spikes of happiness and calm. I’ve often even wondered, “Was my bullied, stuttering teenage self better off?”

Turns out, I’m not alone.

While one study linked career growth to potentially higher depression, another found CEOs and top entrepreneurs to be 2X more prone to misery than regular people!

The most shocking finding of all?

A-Grade high-achievers are 4X more likely to mentally suffer than those…

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Neeramitra Reddy
Publishous

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