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Setbacks can teach you the wrong lesson
Setbacks can teach you the wrong lesson
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” Setbacks can also be lousy teachers, largely because they tend to cloud our minds with negativity, a sense of doom, and this nagging sensation that the current state of affairs will last an eternity.
On a related note, read this essay on career decline
“But as Darwin progressed into his 50s, he stagnated; he hit a wall in his research. At the same time an Austrian monk by the name of Gregor Mendel discovered what Darwin needed to continue his work: the theory of genetic inheritance. Unfortunately, Mendel’s work was published in an obscure academic journal and Darwin never saw it—and in any case, Darwin did not have the mathematical ability to understand it. From then on he made little progress. Depressed in his later years, he wrote to a close friend, “I have not the heart or strength at my age to begin any investigation lasting years, which is the only thing which I enjoy.”
Mehran Gul, the author of “The New Geography of Innovation” will be with us on August 25. Read his latest essay and join us live for the masterclass at 230 pm GMT. RSVP link will be shared shortly.