I've been reading a self help book Expectations for a pretty while now. And by a while, I mean not less than three months now. This isn't the kind of books that ranges from 300 to 500 pages though.
It's actually a 222 paged book by a Nigerian author whose books fall under "Christian inspirational and self help" genre.
I'd never read any book that falls within my preferred genre that long but then again, for every time I pick it up, I take it one chapter at a time and I believe I'm doing well enough to let the messages sink in.
I grabbed the book today and flipped to the page I folded in halves, as a reminder of where I stopped the previous time. Of all thought provoking sentences laid out in my sight, a certain one gave me a food for thought.
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know) but what they know that ain't so.
... which isn't just thrown at them at the initial stage but rather, uncovered through not-so-funny experiences. The trueness of this statement is something I just wouldn't dare to argue against.
If not all, majority of people have had to grow up with some wrong beliefs and mindset passed on by the older generations and a portion of it while not false, are also not entirely true. Flawed with misleading elements. Talk about a loaf of bread but half baked.
Gearing in the context of the saying that hard work guarantees success, I would like to chip in my two cents on it cause even I have heard that from my older ones a couple of times that I can't just forget it.
I'm definitely not going to say that hardwork is utterly useless in the course of being successful... Nah. If anything, it's a core ingredient in cooking up one's success story except it doesn't end there.
Alongside hard work comes God's grace (or luck in respect to those who aren't religious), resources, great connection, right timing, one's health, and believe me, the list goes on.
However, people are fed with the belief that working hard covers it all which sounds like saying that, just with the inclusion of table salt, a meal is ready to be savored.
Which is why you get to see individuals tirelessly working 9 to 5, highly believing that they're keying into success which would have been truer if only reality isn't as messy as it is.
So in all, people attaching a belief to something should equally go with knowledge of the real deal, leaving no margin for frustration or that scare in life.
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