On success
Apr. 26th, 2026 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
posicScott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid02veAnC3zpEXVLbZRkwfDXhvVpp6fPGSuxJt2hG5CDgJMxeYrLWG1JcgZDiQwVeaU2l :
Something nobody warns you about success: It doesn't fix the thing you thought it would fix. You just become a more comfortable version of the same person with the same problems. The problems upgrade. You don't.
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Yes, exactly. Not that I have that much of a success, but it doesn't matter. Nothing is going to fix my problems, ever. No books I have written, no papers I have published. That's exactly what is bothering me right now.
Something nobody warns you about success: It doesn't fix the thing you thought it would fix. You just become a more comfortable version of the same person with the same problems. The problems upgrade. You don't.
***
Yes, exactly. Not that I have that much of a success, but it doesn't matter. Nothing is going to fix my problems, ever. No books I have written, no papers I have published. That's exactly what is bothering me right now.
