[MrBig]

Originally Posted by jerome

Yes, but history only talks about the winners, not the losers.

Yes, but the winners focus on winning, not losing, that is why they are winners. Losers on the other hand, always find excuses outside of themselves, which justify or explain away why they failed.

Winners use failure as an opportunity to grow and learn from it, not as an excuse to quit.

If you don’t know how to drive a car, you learn how to do it. You don’t say something like, “Oh, man thousands of people are being killed on the roads every year, so I’m not going to learn how to drive a car.”

There would not be any winners at all if people would focus on losing.

No mention is given to the thousands of individuals who worked just as much and were just as inspired as Bill gates, but ultimately landed with their face in the dirt.

Who cares? When you drive your car, do you focus on the fact that other drivers are being killed all over the world as you drive your car?

There were people who failed before Bill Gates. He could have said, “Oh, man I’m not going to do what I want to do, because millions of people failed pursuing what they wanted to do.”

Are you so sure that Bill didn't have any idea what he was doing?

I’m pretty sure Bill Gates does not claim to be Silvia Browne. He did what he wanted to do in spite of the fact that many around him thought he was crazy.

There are some programmers who started out with Bill and now are applying for welfare.

There will be always people who fail. So what?

Larry Ellison could have said, “I’m not going to do what I want to do, because other database companies failed. Oh, and there is this guy, Bill Gates, he will bankrupt me with his database product. After all, his company, Microsoft, has more cash than god, how can I possibly succeed with my silly Oracle idea?

So, I’ll just go and work as a QA engineer at some startup. Wait, what if I fail at that? I have heard some people could not pass the interview. Wow, so maybe I should settle for even less. How about a support engineer? But wait, those guys are getting fired as well and all jobs are being outsourced to India.

That's one of the dangers from "The Secret". Some people will just "trust the universe" and ultimately stray from their responsibilities.

People have been straying from their responsibilities long before The Secret came out. The Secret does not teach how to stray from responsibilities, just the opposite, it says that one is 100 % responsible for everything that happens in his or her life.

I have heard of some people quitting their job to "pursue their bliss" thinking that the LOA would take care of them, but ultimately filing for bankruptcy and losing their home.

Not to be redundant, but again, who cares? It does not matter what other people are doing. What do you want to do?

There are people who take second mortgage on a house to day-trade on the stock market. Many lose everything and file for bankruptcy. There are people who drink 5 bottles of wine every day and die from alcoholism. There are people who drive drunk and kill other people. There are people who abuse food and die from obesity.

Whose fault is that? Should we close stock market, stop selling wine, ban cars, and close McDonalds? Anything can be abused, twisted and interpreted from the negative.

It does not matter what other people do with The Secret, what can you do with it? Losers lose because they come from the mindset of failure, finger pointing, and excuses, winners win because the failure is not an option. It is as simple as that.