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at the goal is, being able to achieve it is what defines success.Okay, we get that. Now, what’s next? What’s the thing that no one told me about?I’m glad you asked.<h1 id="263b">The Three bucket Theory</h1>So, the thing is that the world is split into three buckets:Bucket 1: People who have no ultimate goal and therefore no way to achieve that goal.Bucket 2: People who have an ultimate goal but fail to achieve that ultimate goal.Bucket 3: People who have an ultimate goal and will spend every waking hour trying to make that goal a reality.Most people live in Bucket 1 & 2. Successful people live in Bucket 3.<figure id="3718"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*2dknymoLQ9L9eymi.jpg"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>People from Bucket 1 spend most of their time dealing with the minutiae of everyday life. They barely get any time to think or plan for the future. Most of their free time is spent executing and not enough in strategizing about their own life. Many in that bucket are people who, because of birth lottery or other unfortunate situations, started the race of life way behind the starting line. They were dealt a bad hand and haven’t had the chance to get back up yet and understand how to best play that hand. They don’t even have the time to set an ultimate goal let alone achieve it. In that regard, they are at a disadvantage compared to people from Bucket 2.People from bucket 2 get close to success but never achieve it themselves. They are the most common. They are your typical middle-class average joes or janes. They are the people who have a goal but can barely find the time to make that goal a reality. They are the ones who wake up every day in the quest for success but end up getting lost in the sauce in the process. Unlike people from Bucket 1, many of these people have a chance to achieve success but usually fail to do so.Why is that?Why can’t people from bucket 2 make the leap into bucket 3?The answer has to do with how bad someone really wants to achieve success.I’ve spent a lot of time studying people I consider successful as I defined it above — people from Bucket 3. Some of

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these people include Mr. Beast, Warren Buffett, Tim Ferriss, Drake, and Naval Ravikant. The one theme that seems to be prevalent in all their paths to success is that they wanted to achieve their goals really badly and wouldn’t let anything stop them.<h1 id="947f">How bad do you want it?</h1>To have a chance at success requires dedicating hundreds and hundreds of hours focusing solely on one specific skill that will allow you to achieve your goal. It may be odd for you to read Mr. Breast and Warren Buffett in the same sentence but one thing they both have in common is that they were obsessed over their goals.Mr. Beast started focusing on Youtube when he was 11 years old and never looked back since.By the age of 10, Warren Buffett read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.Those people set up their ultimate goals early on and, because they wanted to achieve their goals so badly, they had no choice but to achieve them.Compare that to the average joe or jane from daily life who has for the ultimate goal of starting a family and living happily ever after but will crack at the first sign of trouble. After a few fights with their spouse, they are ready to give up and call the divorce lawyer. Or the little league soccer team coach who will call it quit after losing 7 straight games in the season.Many people have goals but never become successful because they don’t want it bad enough. Or they never become successful because they never even set up a goal for themselves.The truth is that unless that ultimate goal is what you really want, you may not do the necessary to achieve it. And that is fine. But you may then need to redefine what you mean by success.The quest for success can make you blind to your surrounding. It requires you to sacrifice everything so that you can achieve success. It requires you to look past the punches in your face and still focus on the ultimate goal. It requires you to want something so bad that you won’t let anything stop you from getting to that other side. And the crazy thing is none of these appear to be a price to be paid for people in the third Bucket. In fact, what some call the price of success is something successful people have long accepted.</article></body>

The One Truth About Success That No One Told You About

This may change your mind about success

Would you consider yourself successful?

If you got everything you desired, how certain are you that you will want what you had wished for?

I spend a lot of time thinking or reading about success.

But, what is success?

Success Defined

There’s obviously the definition of success that society teaches all of us at a young age, you know, the success where you have a lot of money and material things. But that’s not really the definition of success I want to use in this piece.

I’m going to define success here as being able to set the ultimate goal for your life and achieve it.

This definition has two key parts: setting an ultimate goal and achieving it.

What do I mean by ultimate goal? The ultimate goal is the mother of all goals. It’s the thing that, if achieved, will make you say “I lived a full life.” It’s the type of thing you will tell stories to your grandkids about when you are 80 years old reflecting on the past.

Achieving that goal is the other key part of the definition. You obviously cannot achieve a goal you haven’t set out in the first place, but if you set a goal and don’t achieve it, it may make you feel less good about yourself. Achieving your ultimate goal is as important as defining that ultimate goal.

One helps you pick a North Star, the other one helps you get to that North Star.

The “type” of goal doesn’t make one person more successful than the other.

Success can mean different things to different people. For Person A, it may be to start a family and live happily ever after. For Person B, it may be to become the best soccer coach in the local community. Or for someone else, it may be to become the fastest runner the world has ever seen.

No matter what the goal is, being able to achieve it is what defines success.

Okay, we get that. Now, what’s next? What’s the thing that no one told me about?

I’m glad you asked.

The Three bucket Theory

So, the thing is that the world is split into three buckets:

Bucket 1: People who have no ultimate goal and therefore no way to achieve that goal.

Bucket 2: People who have an ultimate goal but fail to achieve that ultimate goal.

Bucket 3: People who have an ultimate goal and will spend every waking hour trying to make that goal a reality.

Most people live in Bucket 1 & 2. Successful people live in Bucket 3.

People from Bucket 1 spend most of their time dealing with the minutiae of everyday life. They barely get any time to think or plan for the future. Most of their free time is spent executing and not enough in strategizing about their own life. Many in that bucket are people who, because of birth lottery or other unfortunate situations, started the race of life way behind the starting line. They were dealt a bad hand and haven’t had the chance to get back up yet and understand how to best play that hand. They don’t even have the time to set an ultimate goal let alone achieve it. In that regard, they are at a disadvantage compared to people from Bucket 2.

People from bucket 2 get close to success but never achieve it themselves. They are the most common. They are your typical middle-class average joes or janes. They are the people who have a goal but can barely find the time to make that goal a reality. They are the ones who wake up every day in the quest for success but end up getting lost in the sauce in the process. Unlike people from Bucket 1, many of these people have a chance to achieve success but usually fail to do so.

Why is that?

Why can’t people from bucket 2 make the leap into bucket 3?

The answer has to do with how bad someone really wants to achieve success.

I’ve spent a lot of time studying people I consider successful as I defined it above — people from Bucket 3. Some of these people include Mr. Beast, Warren Buffett, Tim Ferriss, Drake, and Naval Ravikant. The one theme that seems to be prevalent in all their paths to success is that they wanted to achieve their goals really badly and wouldn’t let anything stop them.

How bad do you want it?

To have a chance at success requires dedicating hundreds and hundreds of hours focusing solely on one specific skill that will allow you to achieve your goal. It may be odd for you to read Mr. Breast and Warren Buffett in the same sentence but one thing they both have in common is that they were obsessed over their goals.

Mr. Beast started focusing on Youtube when he was 11 years old and never looked back since.

By the age of 10, Warren Buffett read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.

Those people set up their ultimate goals early on and, because they wanted to achieve their goals so badly, they had no choice but to achieve them.

Compare that to the average joe or jane from daily life who has for the ultimate goal of starting a family and living happily ever after but will crack at the first sign of trouble. After a few fights with their spouse, they are ready to give up and call the divorce lawyer. Or the little league soccer team coach who will call it quit after losing 7 straight games in the season.

Many people have goals but never become successful because they don’t want it bad enough. Or they never become successful because they never even set up a goal for themselves.

The truth is that unless that ultimate goal is what you really want, you may not do the necessary to achieve it. And that is fine. But you may then need to redefine what you mean by success.

The quest for success can make you blind to your surrounding. It requires you to sacrifice everything so that you can achieve success. It requires you to look past the punches in your face and still focus on the ultimate goal. It requires you to want something so bad that you won’t let anything stop you from getting to that other side. And the crazy thing is none of these appear to be a price to be paid for people in the third Bucket. In fact, what some call the price of success is something successful people have long accepted.