The New Metric for Success in Today’s Hyper-Competitive World

It’s never been easier to enter the top 1%. I could easily be talking about money and material wealth, since we’re living through the greatest wealth transfer in the history of humanity — the internet gold rush.

But the new metric for success has more to do with work ethic and discipline — those things that everyone loves to fake — than anything you could ever buy or be born with.

Nobody wants to work for anything anymore. Steroids, Instagram filters, plastic surgery, fake followers, lottery tickets — quick fixes, scams, and desperate dreams everywhere.

Then we wonder why we’re unhappy and directionless!

Happiness comes with friction; it follows extreme levels of discipline, patience and focus over staggeringly long periods of time. Hard work makes you happy. Cheap happiness is called pleasure, and pleasure doesn’t last.

Pride, however, the feeling that you gave your absolute best and had nothing left to give, well that lasts forever.

Not only that, but it’s completely divorced from results. When I’m working hard, I don’t care about results or what anyone else is doing. I want to succeed, obviously, and I hate futility. But success in anything comes from hard work, and you can’t work hard — it’s literally…