The ultimate guide to success

A few people from my team were having a quick bullshit session before one of our meetings and the topic quickly changed to all these hustle porn people on LinkedIn and Twitter. Everyone unfortunately has seen these people - the people who claim to have the keys to success if you follow them.

They all follow a similar pattern. They follow people who have had success (oftentimes themselves) and highlight the things they do that made them successful. These keys can be anything silly from taking a magnesium pill in the morning to dieting to work habits.

Look, I’m sure some of these tips are great and do help you live a fulfilling and successful life. Yes some diets can give people more energy to do good work. Implementing Bezo’s 2 pizza rule at your company may work well for you.

But what I hate about these people is the narrative that implementing this also implies that you’re going to have similar success. These people are often selling a “silver bullet” solution that will fix all of one’s problems and make them overnight successes. In fact, think about all of the people who do implement this “fix” and have not become successful.

There’s too much bullshit nowadays on the internet.