Guaranteed Path to Success

What if I told you that there is a guaranteed path that leads to success? The path, should you choose to accept, will ensure enormous success.

Now if you think that I am drunk or gonna talk BS, well I can't entirely blame you. But before I tell you about "the magical path to success", let me first tell you the other two extreme paths which most people choose and fail. The unfortunate part is that more than 99% of people, knowingly or unknowingly are walking down these paths only. So it's time to change the status quo.

What are these two extreme paths leading to guaranteed failure?

Thinking without action

Acting without thinking

Let us take an example of a swimming pool to better understand the above two paths. There are 3 friends (the 3 musketeers) sitting along and chilling near the pool. It is their ardent desire to learn to swim.

Athos - Thinking Without Action

Now all the 3 are watching people swimming, and after a while, Athos starts to wonder. He is completely perplexed and baffled to see people half his age swimming effortlessly in deep waters as he has been afraid to swim since his childhood and this fear is still getting the better of him.

Now, he surely wants to learn to swim but his fear has chained him pretty badly and he is unable to break free. Every time he wanted to take a dip, his fear would come back haunting him, and ultimately, he never really learned to swim.

The path he chose (thinking without action) led him to failure.

This one simple thought, "swimming is hard for me", got engraved in his mind so badly that it became almost impossible for him to get out of this trap. This fear stuck with him till the very end and didn't let him take that first step to learn.

Porthos - Acting without Thinking

Now comes Porthos. He is the exact opposite of Athos.

When he saw people swimming, he became over-excited and thought that it was a child's play to swim, and if they can do it, so can he. He has never tried swimming in his entire life but is over-confident about his so-called "abilities".

So, he straight away jumped into the deeper side of the pool, and as you could have probably guessed, he failed miserably.

This path too (action without thinking), leads to failure!

One can't and shouldn't, without knowing anything about the work, straight away jump into something substantial, only to fail later.

These two are the two extreme situations that can't possibly lead one to SUCCESS! And if you look closely, most of us are walking down these paths only, consciously or unconsciously.

Either they are trapped in the analysis paralysis, leading to no action.

OR

They take action without thinking anything, giving in to the heat of the moment.

Even if someone comes and saves Porthos, this particular incident will haunt him for the rest of his life, and he will probably never try it again!

In fact, this fear can have a profound effect on him in every phase of his life, because every time he will have to make a decision, this particular incident will make him question it again and again.

Aramis - The Path to Success

So now who's left? Aramis.

Needless to say, you need to follow the path he did, which very well is the guaranteed path to success. What did he do? He patiently observed people who were good at swimming and thought that if they can do it, then so can I.

But the catch here is that he wasn't all over-excited or over-confident about it which didn't make him straight away jump into the cold water.

He first talked to the people who knew about swimming and asked them how they learned the whole process. Common sense. And they pointed out this one thing that though they are swimming in the deep waters right now, they learned swimming in the shallow water.

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