A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 76
“Failures are many, but losing love for your life is the ultimate failure.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 76
The walk-through
A lot of what we want turns less on what we have than on the state of mind we bring to it. Innocent learned that as an author: state of mind meets the things in your life and decides how much happiness, satisfaction, purpose and passion come out of them.
He applies it to the big words. “Creative genius is not a place you reach, but a state of mind you maintain” — a mind that finds meaning others walk past. Success works the same way: a state you keep up, in which “you love your life and what you’ve made of it”.
That changes what failure means. Setbacks will pile up, as they do for everyone; they are not the real loss. Losing the love for your own life is. Keep that love and the ordinary failures stay ordinary.
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