Thread by @orangebook_

If you think your personal success story is due to efforts, think again:

• How was your thinking process forged?

• What did you receive both from your ancestors & your mother’s womb?

Luck has a predominant influence on your habits.

The latter determines your societal path.

Imagine:

You were born in a country suddenly struck by war.

Your dad ends up getting killed when you’re 10.

You & your five siblings struggle to survive, and your uneducated single mother is both overwhelmed & distressed.

You make a bunch of bad decisions that compound.

You never had any time to educate yourself.
Not enough food, let alone books.

At 18, the war is still ongoing & you need to either flee or fight.

You know there is no hope to survive on the battlefield.

You start a new life in a foreign country whose language you don’t speak.

Over there, you’re now victim of discrimination.

Adding to your past sufferings, you can feel negative thoughts growing up:

• lack of self-confidence
• envy & jealousy towards people the same age who had peaceful environments & loving parents
• no hope to ever catch up

You struggle year after year, and when you’re 30, you’re still broke.

Not because of your lack of efforts.
Just because you were unlucky from the start.

You lost the societal lottery.

You weren’t particularly gifted by the genetic lottery either.

The point of my story inspired by a close relative:

• Stop comparing your life with others’.

If you consume what you’re being fed with by default, from the media to SNS (Twitter included), you’ll quickly feel irrelevant.

The “young guys who made it through efforts” are lucky.

• Educate yourself on the history of world: that’s the only way to show gratitude.

As long as you remain ignorant of the sequence of events that led you to your current life, you won’t realize how lucky you are.

In which case, you will tend to create drama out of thin air.

In order to become an independent thinker, you need to abstract yourself from the basic concepts of mental models.

Read to create the foundations.
Meditate to put theory into practice.

Both of which cannot be achieved if your chaotic life has been led by wars & conflicts.

If you’re reading this, you were lucky enough to be born in a magical era birthed by mankind’s collective imagination.

New opportunities and sufferings may be intermingled with each other.

But just remember: you are luckier than most fellow human beings that ever existed. /END