Secrets of Success Stay Secret

The principles of success are almost unknown.  Most of what is written about success is really what sounds good, not what works naturally.

There is almost no real science research about why people are successful, especially financially.

The self help industry is an industry of illusion spinners.  They sell what people want to believe, not what is true.  Usually what people want to believe is that which is the most distant to reality, not what is closest to it!

Endless websites say they know how you too can become successful… for the lowlowlow price of onlyonlyonly x$.  Come on!

Working hard is not it; it’s not why people are successful.  Some inheritors are successful in what they undertake and didn’t work hard at it; others burn out the family fortune in years.

Good looks are not it.  They may help but for every Hollywood star there are the beautiful hundreds who are still valets and waiters who didn’t get lucky.

Talent is not it.  See above.

So what is it?

That’s a good question.  The first thing to realize is that almost no one out there knows.

You might get a report, or an entire book, about how millionaire’s think but for all you know (this is the classic fallacy of confusing correlation with causation, the bane of science research) the millionaires are thinking that way BECAUSE of what is happening to them and what they are doing, not the other way around.

Realizing that, where does that leave you?

It leaves you with a good question.

Why Doesn’t Goal Setting Work?

Why does goal setting require so much reinforcement?  Why do people have to spend so much money on continually getting pumped and re-pumped by the latest book, CD, video, or seminar and have to force and force themselves some more to set and pursue goals?

My hypothesis is goal setting is totally and completely unnatural.

And it doesn’t actually work for most people.

The entire success and self help industry is founded on  ideas and writings that sound good but  in fact do not work.

This Blog’s Numerological Nature and Fate and Success

Numerologically this blog totals a 7 and comes from 8, in the standard energy flow of numerology.

Now for some suitable meditations on the numbers of 7 and 8, the numbers involved in spirituality, analysis, fate, and success…

What governs success?  Is it all chance?  Fate?  It seems to be fate if you think about, even if it is unfashionable to say so.

I’ve spent a lot of time and energy researching success, financial and otherwise.  Despite what people say there seems to be NO method, set of steps, or anything concrete or definable that helps one become successful.  It seems like karma or fate.  It may be ‘working hard’ but you also need skills and a lot of beneficial chances or luck coming your way.

There is no avoiding the fact you need luck, even if it is the luck to inherit the right skills, height, beauty, talent or whichever criteria you need to get where you wish to go.  On top of that then you need yet more luck!

It’s luck in the first place to have the energy and disposition to get the skills to even give you a chance.

Really most people have no idea why they are in the situation they are in, and almost no one has gone from  ‘zero to hero’, except by luck.

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, writes about this.  If you want a middle class life learn the skills and hope for the best (no injury or attack by a sociopath).  But to be rich you need a lot of luck.

Continued meditations on luck, numbers, life and fate coming up…