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How to Adopt a Winner’s Mindset (Even if You Feel Like a Loser)
The brutally honest truth about success
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” — Charles Bukowski
Some people are clearly and objectively not winning in life. They’re not bad people, but they didn’t make the correct moves. There are certain situations that simply aren’t ideal and the only conclusion you can draw from them is the fact that the person in them just didn’t play their cards right.
Again, let me add the little disclaimer that I have to add to almost every self-help post. I’m not talking about people caught in cycles of true poverty who were screwed from birth. It’s weird how people who aren’t personally in that situation always bring that up (coping mechanism).
If you grew up with a relatively normal upbringing and find yourself in a position you don’t want to be in…that’s not winning.
It’s obvious, we pretend like it isn’t, and we’re all collectively in this shared agreement where, as a society, we don’t discuss the fact that most people bullshit away the vast majority of…
