Success defined as individualized definition of success. Your own ideal personhood expressed as attitudes, interactions, influence, etc.
What's at the source of a fear of success? Perhaps it's a fear that no one will notice your brand of success, and the this will push you further into existential isolation.
So what's the solution to that? Getting grounded? Deriving sustaining energy from something separate? Perhaps. For me, this is not a problem to be solved pre-emptively, but to be experienced and dealt with concurrently. If not, that grounding or what-have-you could become another addiction.
The risk? That success will not be noticed by the outside world and this will magnify all of the existential struggles of the individual.
How most people deal with it: But making choices that they are fairly sure will result in some existentially safe combination of self-respect and societal-respect.
Is this bad? It could be a waste a of potential development if the "reason" for existence is to confront existential realities and to individuate to a maximum extent. So, those who avoid the struggle are creating a sort of retarding matrix of illusory values.
Thoughts?
What's at the source of a fear of success? Perhaps it's a fear that no one will notice your brand of success, and the this will push you further into existential isolation.
So what's the solution to that? Getting grounded? Deriving sustaining energy from something separate? Perhaps. For me, this is not a problem to be solved pre-emptively, but to be experienced and dealt with concurrently. If not, that grounding or what-have-you could become another addiction.
The risk? That success will not be noticed by the outside world and this will magnify all of the existential struggles of the individual.
How most people deal with it: But making choices that they are fairly sure will result in some existentially safe combination of self-respect and societal-respect.
Is this bad? It could be a waste a of potential development if the "reason" for existence is to confront existential realities and to individuate to a maximum extent. So, those who avoid the struggle are creating a sort of retarding matrix of illusory values.
Thoughts?
