My Take

  It is the question I find myself asking most of the time. I know my goals, and I know that I am doing the best I can to reach them, but what if I should do more? What if I am falling behind? I keep reading all of these success stories of people who got there from a very young age, and I keep wondering what I am doing wrong. I should be where they are. I followed all the steps, so why? All of these questions are the background noise in my mind, and I always find myself struggling with them.  Today is my birthday, another yearly brutal reminder of how behind I am, but not this year. I recently listened to an amazing book called “The Compound Effect” written by this successful millionaire entrepreneur who is very successful in every measure I have and who had his first company since he was 18! and how he got to where he is and how he is still growing. The simple idea of the book is a notion that I believed in for so long: small, consistent actions can lead to significant result...

 Recently, more people have been struggling with managing their spending. We buy so many things that we eventually get rid of or that end up on a shelf with the rest of the stuff we wasted our money on. I always wondered about the real motive behind this action and why people keep doing it, never learning from their previous purchases, until I stumbled upon an amazing theory that kind of explained it all. It’s called Mimicry Desire or the Mimetic Theory. According to this theory, people desire objects not for their intrinsic value but because they see others desiring them. In simple terms, we do not desire what we really like but rather what others like and desire, mistaking it for our own. I do not believe that we are always driven by it, but it definitely plays a crucial part in our lives. The first thing that comes to mind to solve this problem is to decrease the usage of social media platforms and spending hours on unconscious scrolling that slowly builds up these fake desires ...