Otherwise your own momentum is all you will be left with. In that case, your/all will show, just another set of lazy beliefs who've failed you.
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I'll note... none of us gets out of this alive. The Zero Hedge logo paired with the quote "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
But, what you do with that awareness is a CHOICE. You can believe, if you want to, that your momentum in life isn't enough... not enough even to make the effort to continue living worthwhile. Or, instead, you can "rage, rage, against the dying of the light," speak the truth, and Do not go gentle Into that good night.
But, beliefs don't "fail"... instead, people make bad choices. The core in ideas is more or less static... which still doesn't make ideas more or less equivalent ? Innovation might add to the core of a concept, building upon it, or effort may end in chipping something away as a sculptor might... to find more inside than was apparent at first...
But, failure is a function of adopting error... evaluating in error, adding or taking away things that generate results, but end without making positive contributions ? The ideas aren't what fails. Our choices don't get a pass. The choices one makes were either more right, or more wrong, and people opting to think one idea or another is "better"... and then being proven wrong... isn't the fault of the idea ?
All of which is essential in understanding that responsibility for your choices... is about more than outcomes.
Outcomes always depend on others, at least, they will whenever we judge value based on what others are willing to value, and how much. Ultimately, that requires surrendering to others judgment... even when they clearly are wrong.
Choose well... choose rightly... and live courageously...
Can you say you have lived, otherwise ?
Note, that seems it is inherently in conflict with what you do in markets... where the whole point is "other focused": as the goal is to figure out what OTHERS value... rightly or wrongly... and to figure out how that will change over time. Your goal is only to get there ahead of them... to sell them what they want at a profit... when they want it most... whether or not they're aware of what they''ll want or need beforehand. The early bird gets the worm... is the only aphorism that comes to mind... Surely there must be something more powerful that could be said about this idea ?
Because, in the end, not only can you not take it with you, you also must leave it all behind... for others to deal with as best they can without you. How well you do that matters ?
My grandfather taught me two things:
1. Whatever it is you do in life... do the best at it that you can. All the art in living life, as all art, is in the work, and in finding paths to expressing excellence in that work... even in the simplest tasks.
2. Whatever it is you work on... leave it better than you found it.
And if you do that, only... you are a success... and will have no reason for regrets.
Finding that point of balance... between what you value... and what others value... is the key ?
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