#rationality #metaphysical #wisdom Created at 2022-12-16 Last modified date: 2022-12-17 14:03 Commit: 1 # [Anonymous feedback](https://www.admonymous.co/louis030195) # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[The Experience]] - [[Kapil Gupta - A Master's Secret Whispers For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living]] - [[Bruce Lee's Wisdom - Striking Thoughts]] - [[Ego]] - [[Hedonic Treadmill]] - [[Hard work]] # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Success ![[ecc198ec-6723-4144-97bd-4aa33cd6bbca-0-900945555.png]] >You see, my student, the entire notion of "success" versus "failure" has become a thing of its own. Man has created a beast. And this beast called "success" has become completely independent of the thing that he wishes to succeed at. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - A Master's Secret Whispers For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living|Kapil Gupta]] ![concept art of travis scott as a king, artstation, hyperdetalied, 8 k, high quality, ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/01a591de-2521-4204-a56f-f95765302f9a) >Man spends so much of his time trying to "succeed" that he overlooks the things that will give it to him quite easily. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - A Master's Secret Whispers For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living|Kapil Gupta]] ![francis picabia art ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/03d8faa8-2ad2-4308-9660-2be5923abc73) %%The hedonistic race pursued by men, the exhausting thirst for status and power, by Picasso.%% ![shadow of the colossus secene, el guernica painting style, ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/0435dc4f-0d2d-404e-a404-8532c8049739)