Inner voice

Success and its pitfalls

September 02, 2026, 21:59 am Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

Einstein never won the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity, and as a young man he was told that he would never amount to anything. Who knows if we will ever understand what Tesla was actually telling us. Cézanne died unknown, Nietzsche was discovered only when he was no longer able to communicate with anyone, Bizet died from the torment of Karmen was not accepted... Imagine what your life would be like if these and similar people gave up the first time they failed at something and were told they were losers. Or fifth. Or thousands

Our age suffers from a kind of obsession with success. Lists of the most successful people, movies, athletes, countries appear every now and then... Loser has become a worse insult than geek, and no price is too high for fifteen minutes of fame, not to mention influencer status... But what does it actually mean to be successful? And why is it so important to people? Who about that […]

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