DISQUS

Jeffrey Tang · 4 months ago

I like how you focus on the "self." What many people forget (or deliberately ignore) is that your success or failure is ultimately dependent on your choices and actions.

It's really easy to blame circumstances. Or bad luck. Or other people. And it's true that sometimes things outside of your control can interfere with your best-laid plans.

But at the end of the day, who you are and what you accomplish is your own responsibility.

Omar Eduardo Fernández · 4 months ago

I couldn't agree more with that last statement, "...at the end of the day, who you are and what you accomplish is your own responsibility."

I am just now reading a book, "No one's perfect", that is the story of a famous Japanese man, Hirotada Ototake, who was born with no arms and no legs. He is now an accomplished Sports Writer and wrote his own memoir in 1998 (at the age of 22) which has sold millions of copies. The most impressive part is that during his childhood, instead of letting his disability stop him, he would do the most impressive things, play sports, run for officer positions in school clubs, etc. Furthermore he was able to get into one of the most prestigious private universities in Japan, Waseda University.

I think this is one of the many examples, maybe a more dramatic one, of how we are in charge of our lives.