What if someone told you that your success is an outcome of your luck? Is that enough for you to lash out and explain how your hard work and dedication have gotten you to the position where you are right now? What if I told you that your success is indeed a product of two contradictions? So why is the nature of your success contradictory? Before you could understand that, let's take a couple of minutes to get to know these contradictions. Contradiction 1: Your belief that it's your hard work and countless sleepless nights that have abled you to climb that success ladder and stand at the top. But, on the other hand, Contradiction 2: Your awareness that Contradiction 1 is a lie and your luck has played an important role in getting you where you are. This antithetical concept is the Success Paradox. But why does your success require to be paradoxical? The truth is, it doesn't. But it's the best approach that one should take to remain in touch with reality. It is human natu...
A universal truth is something that is meant to be taken as true at all times regardless of the situation. Still, these truths might form the largest portion of the things that are broken by the universe on a daily basis. The only thing that shields our beliefs from shattering is our acquaintance with that particular truth-shattering event which changes our entire reality once it comes out of the dark. So, if universal truths are something that could be broken, what value do our personal truths hold in front of them? And if our truths are meaningless, what good is our life? I have seen that I tend to take my writings to a bleak reality very often. Maybe that is where I think society is headed nowadays. Or maybe, these are the warnings of the forbidden pathways that we should avoid in order to progress towards the betterment of society, and not its destruction. So maybe, I am just highlighting the alternate timelines that I think we should avoid. Well, back to the matter at hand. You mi...