Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.
— Publilius Syrus
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Collapse is usually preceded by a stretch where judgement quietly deteriorates and nobody around the person says so. Success is often what starts it, since a run of good outcomes teaches you that your instincts are reliable and you stop checking them at exactly the point where the stakes have risen. The recklessness feels like confidence from inside.
The safeguard is somebody who will tell you when you sound unreasonable, and permission for them to do it. Ask one person you trust whether anything you have been saying lately seems off. Take the answer seriously, especially if things have been going unusually well.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What warning signs are you calling luck instead of trouble?
MORE IN TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY & SELF-AWARENESS
- It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
- To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,—this is the mark and character of…
- Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.