If You Have to Talk About Your “Success,” Then You Aren’t Actually Successful
These days, there is no shortage of people talking about what they’re doing and how successful they are. You see it all over social media:
- Gurus.
- Experts.
- Growth hackers.
It’s a little overwhelming, isn’t it? But are these people as awesome as they claim?
In college, I had a friend named Seth who was the smartest guy I ever knew. We had the same major, so we shared a lot of the same classes. The difference between the two of us, though, was that I was always running my mouth and he never said a word.
I thought I knew the answers, so I would share them. Seth would just listen. Then, every once in a while, he’d say something that blew everyone’s mind, including the professor’s. It didn’t happen very often, but when it did, we all were amazed.
I think we would be better off if the world was filled with more people like Seth.
The Inverse Relationship Between Talking and Doing
I have a theory about this.
There seems to be an inverse relationship between how much a person talks about what they’re doing and how much they’re actually…
