APX-VI-0063
“I quit chasing someone else's definition of success and wrote my own.”
You hit the marks other people set and felt nothing, because the scoreboard was never yours. The victim says the game is rigged; the author rewrites the game. You defined success in your own terms and the emptiness lifted. Keep your definition. A life spent winning someone else's game is a life unauthored.
Your Practice
- Write what success actually means to you — not your parents', not the culture's.
- Identify one borrowed metric you've been chasing. Drop it.
- Realign this week's effort to your real scoreboard.
- Check yourself quarterly: am I winning my game or someone else's?
The Architects
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
— Steve Jobs, Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12, 2005