#248: Practice Being Luckier at Random Success
NonsenseAtWork22 Mars 2022

#248: Practice Being Luckier at Random Success

Once upon a time I thought it would be fun to....

I lie. I thought it would be lucrative to jump on the success coach wagon. You know which wagon I mean. The one carting around those Steps to Success.

Lucky for me, and maybe you, I remembered nonsense. And that nonsense is always at work. Specifically, I remembered that what is nonsense to me might be sense to you. And vice versa.

Meaning? That what I see as success might not be what you see as success. Thus, my steps to success might be your steps to failure.

And so I did not jump. I watched that wagon roll by, again and again, on its seemingly endless circular journey. But although I did not join the wagon train, I cannot help but give bits of random advice. Like the one below. (Please forgive me.)

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