One Apple A Day #117
“Why are people who write about millionaire habits not millionaires?” — https://medium.com/thought-pills/why-are-people-who-write-about-millionaire-habits-not-millionaires-32a10843a592
This is one of the best titles I saw on Medium so far. I have had a similar question in my head for months.
“If having the same habits of Richard Branson is enough to achieve the same results, why he is the only one who owns an island in the Caribbean?”
These books are surely interesting. I think it is useful to read about the healthy habits, strategies, methodologies and models of the ones who achieved remarkable results in life and business. But we must be aware that whatever we learn it won’t guarantee any results. First of all, learning is useless if we don’t take action. But even if you act and apply the same strategies, habits and models, is highly improbable that you will achieve the same results.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
The Anna Karenina principle perfectly explains why doing the same things of a successful person won’t transform you into a samely successful person.
There are too many things that need to go into the right place to succeed that it’s almost impossible to do it. And the ones who achieve great results don’t know how the did it. They know only a part of it, the part they share.
It’s good to read about their stories but being aware that you are not the same person, you don’t live and operate in the same context (period and environment).
If you are aware of your uniqueness than it’s useful to read about successful people because you will able to analyse, adapt and integrate the things that work for you.