If you think those who succeeded in life didn’t fuck up over and over again to get where they are today, you’d be gravely mistaken. Success doesn’t come easy, it’s worked for. What you see as a success story, is very often an idealized retelling of events. Many people who find success don’t do it on their first try, they experience bitter defeat after defeat to get there. Most who find success only got their because they learned from the countless mistakes they made, what to do, and what not to do.
Take someone like the Paul brothers. I wouldn’t say they’re people to be respected, and I doubt they’d expect others to respect them either, but their success has come with countless fuck ups in life. Hell they still consider themselves fuck ups, but in the end they’re successful. I’m sure there are things they’d have done differently if they could knowing what they know after the fact.
I agree and I will now try and explain why I write my two points.
A. It is exactly what it says on the tin. I think when I wrote this, I was thinking of Trump, Musk and Gates and their million dollar loans (yes I am still bitter about how it takes money to make money) and successful people are often these people. Yes I also understand that having a huge capital doesn't mean you are guarenteed a successful business and fuckups and being a useless piece of twat is still possible AKA Lee Ka Shing's son wasting his father's loaned billions and lost them all in investment. My impression of impressive winners in life are those who are born with diamond studded platinum spoons.
B. This point actually agrees with you, instead of wallowing in self pity during a failure, those who succeed are the ones to pick themselves up, learn from their mistakes and be a better person. There are three types of people after falling down; the first are those successful men who get up immediately, the second are the normal people who take their time to get up and the last and third are incompetent and self loathing fools who end up on the ground crying like a bitch and not moving forward in life.
So the common regressor novels are for those who pick themselves up after awhile (I consider type three to be a lost cause and those who got a chance to redo their lives and take it are instantly promoted to type two) because:
A. They know where they fuck up.
B. They have nothing to lose, they failed in their goal and unlike the ones who have succeeded, they are less likely to care about the butterfly effects of their actions.
