Lessons from Don Miller: Success Is More Difficult to Manage than Failure
Don Miller is the kind of guy that I implicitly trusted the first time I met. Not to psychoanalyze too much, but in general I’m not a very trusting person. I believe that most people are good, but I don’t necessarily trust a lot of people. With Don, though, I felt comfortable discussing personal stuff right away.
After a lunch meeting, he wrote me an email with more advice. I asked him if I could share part of it, and he agreed. Maybe it helps some of you, too? Here’s Don:
“Rapid success is much more difficult to manage than failure, I believe. It’s just like walking a tight rope. I think the thing is, success changes you radically, but nothing around you from the old life changes, so now you’re a different person and to some degree larger than the small walls you’ve been living in.
But it’s all a bunch of tricks and lies. What matters in the end is taking the folks who loved you early with you into the new life as gingerly as possible.”
Check out Don’s book, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy.
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