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Stop Looking At Success This Way

We need to change our perspectives on what success actually looks like.

Eric S Burdon
Published in
6 min readNov 14, 2023

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I’d rather not talk about this man, but his story thus far has an important lesson underneath it all.

This is a man that we all know full well. After all almost everything he does gets public attention. This is a man with multiple criminal cases filed against him too.

But what’s so interesting about this man is that out of them all, the most important one to him is a civil case.

Undermining an election doesn’t bother him. Trying to overthrow and have a group of people kill his “right hand man” doesn’t bother him.

What really gets under his skin is a case that accuses him of fraud and questions the entire image that he presents himself as. A billionaire real estate agent whose properties across the globe embarrass even Elon Musk’s net worth.

Supposedly.

Anyone who hasn’t drank the kool-aid knows full well that Trump is a liar and a con artist. But to his base, he is one of the many successful people out there in the world.

And to an extent he is. His success was rooted in conning all kinds of people and having them support his various endeavours.

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Eric S Burdon
Purposeful Life

I write (and sometimes do videos) about self-help for those who don't like self-help. Complete with the occasional memes and riffs on the industry that I love.