Your Life Is Not A Trip to The Supermarket

Please stop chasing the formula for success

Please stop chasing the formula for success

We all want to be successful. But getting there is not easy.

You won’t find the road to success on your GPS. There are no shortcuts either.

“Greatness is a road towards the unknown.” — Charles de Gaulle

Stop taking the bait of cheap wisdom and shallow cleverness behind listicles. I know, we all enjoy lists. We love to categorize information. And lists are visually appealing: they make it easier to scan the content.

Lists simplify our choices too. The more information we have, the worse we feel, as research demonstrated. “The Paradox of choice” — a term coined by Psychologists Claude Messner and Michaela Wänke —is that we feel better when our effort to process something is reduced.

But you don’t need a list to guide your choices. Your life is not like going to the supermarket. Stop shopping for the perfect list that will make you successful. There are no secret ingredients to get you there. Shallow advice, like fresh produce, expires fast.

Your life…