25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
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Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#2Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#3"High paying salary" and "continues to fail" are contradictions and very unusual.
At a certain level how much money you make doesn't really increase our happiness (http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-fo...). It's tough, without knowing him, to know what his real goals and desires are, but it seems to me like "make more money" isn't the answer.
Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#4"High paying salary" and "continues to fail" are contradictions and very unusual.
Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#5Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#6"High paying salary" and "continues to fail" are contradictions and very unusual.
That depends on your definition of success. At a certain level how much money you make doesn't really increase our happiness ( http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-fo... ). It's tough, without knowing him, to know what his real goals and desires are, but it seems to me like "make more money" isn't the answer.
Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#7"High paying salary" and "continues to fail" are contradictions and very unusual.
Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#8His expectations are either unrealistic, or he's surrounded by people who are always doing better, despite him doing well, which makes him seem like a failure. He has the luxury of those feelings.
Silicon Valley can be a totally distorted place where there is always someone doing better. It's important to look inwards for satisfaction, and not externally, or some arbitrary barometer of success.
Plus, the people around him who appear to be winners, are often chock full of their own problems.
Re: 25Y Male making over $250K+ annually. Still stuck. Help?
#9Not everybody feels compelled to a higher calling. In fact, I'd say most people don't. That doesn't mean life isn't worth living, it just means he hasn't found something that he can pour all of his extra energy in to.
Edited to add: Trevor Blackwell used to have something on his web site about founder's stories. I can't find it now. Basically, he was saying that people want to hear inspiring stories from founders about their "a ha" moments and how they were driven to a single goal. This is not how it works for most people. Most innovators, through hard work or happenstance, stumble upon something they have a knack for, and pursue it until they slowly, gradually push the boundaries of the possible. But that doesn't make for a good story.