How would the devil stop your success?
My friend Daniel Brea asked Chat GPT, "If you were the devil, how would you stop someone from being successful?" This was the answer:
1. Keep You Distracted
? Flood your life with constant entertainment, social media, and meaningless notifications.
? Make you chase quick dopamine hits (Netflix, TikTok, endless scrolling) instead of deep work.
? Encourage procrastination by making you feel “productive” while doing low-value tasks.
2. Make You Doubt Yourself
? Whisper thoughts like “Who are you to do this?” or “You’re not good enough.”
? Make you compare themselves to others who seem way ahead.
? Convince you that you need more time, more knowledge, or more validation before taking action.
3. Encourage Perfectionism
? Make you afraid to launch until everything is flawless.
? Convince you that you need to wait for the perfect time, which never comes.
? Make you spend months tweaking minor details instead of actually putting their work out.
4. Feed Your Fear of Failure
? Make failure feel like the end of the world instead of a stepping stone.
? Push you to take feedback personally and avoid risks.
? Convince you that one bad experience means you should quit.
5. Surround You with Negative Influences
? Fill your circle with people who are complacent, skeptical, or envious.
? Ensure your closest friends and family subtly discourage you: “Maybe this isn’t for you.”
? Make sure you seek advice from those who’ve never achieved what you want.
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6. Keep You Busy, But Not Productive
? Get you addicted to planning instead of execution.
? Keep you in “research mode” forever, never applying what you learn.
? Push you into endless brainstorming sessions without deadlines.
7. Make You Chase Too Many Things at Once
? Make you feel like you must do everything—multiple businesses, side hustles, new skills—so you never master one.
? Ensure you jump from idea to idea without sticking with anything long enough to see results.
8. Make You Think You Have More Time Than You Do
? Make you think you’ll start tomorrow… forever.
? Get you to underestimate how fast time passes.
? Fill your days with urgent but unimportant tasks.
9. Make You Ignore Your Health & Energy
? Encourage you to sacrifice sleep, eat junk, and avoid exercise.
? Let you believe that burnout is a sign of hard work, not self-destruction.
? Keep you in a low-energy state so you lack the mental clarity to make good decisions.
10. Kill Your Faith in Yourself
? Convince you that success is based on luck, not effort.
? Make you believe that the system is rigged against you.
? Ensure you give up right before you're about to break through.
The key to all of this: Make sure you never realize you're doing it to yourself.
Success isn’t just about talent or knowledge—it’s about mindset, execution, and consistency. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED!
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1 个月Kenneth, what an eye-opening article! I believe that all these observations have one thing in common: deception, mainly self-deception! At some point or another, we all have minimized these activities as foibles that do not require vigilance. The thing about lies, is that there’s always an element of truth. Like any predator in the jungle, these enemies lull us into a false sense of security: I have plenty of time, I’m not ready yet, maybe I don’t have what it takes…. Before you know it, it’s a year or two later, and we are still no closer to our goals, pissed off that we are not where we want. I believe the first step is to allow ourselves a bit of self introspection, a “coming to Jesus” moment. We must ask our closest friends about these observations and ask if any ring true. Be humble. Take the medicine. Meditate. I have the distinct feeling that some of us running out of time, and do not even realize it! Could that be you? Could that be me? There’s a proverb that says: “the heart is deceitful above all, and beyond cure, who can understand it?” My question is: why all of this gargantuan energy spent on each of us, to derail us? Because when each of us walk in our destinies, we are dangerous, glorious…