Personally, my philosophy centers on two complimentary aspects. Have dreams, have goals and objectives, accomplish them, achieve them, focus on them, and feel good about your successes. Success is NOT a zero sum game.
The first aspect to achieving your dreams is be intelligent, use your mind, learn to think, honestly, directly, analyze, and confirm the accuracy of your thoughts through hard undeniable undebatable reality. Intelligence, both mental and intuitive, is the necessary ingredient to strategize to formulate the potential shortest path to achieve the goal. The second aspect to exercising your intelligence, is a solid, honest, and persistent work ethic. Even geniuses have to work to achieve. A work ethic is the necessary ingredient to implement and bring forth your strategy into the real world, through your hands and complimenting relationships. Just as work is force through a distance, aka, physics 101, so is accomplishment. Accomplishment is success. And, success is intelligence through work.
Stephen Lukacs (2010)

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