Life is Difficult

Here is a big secret that many successful people don't want to tell you.

Life is Difficult.

They want you to think that the path they took was difficult, but if you take it, it will be quick and easy(if you just buy their product).

"Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly...about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy." M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled

Because we want to believe that life should be easy, we often get frustrated when things get difficult. And then these difficult things aren't just difficult, we make the assumption that they are impossible. And so when it get's difficult, when success seems unattainable, we give up.

We criticize it. Saying, "Who wants that anyway" or "That could never really happen". And when we see someone with less talent or credentials or less intelligence (anyone we see that is less worthy than ourselves), we get soooo mad. Ambrose Bierce, journalist and short-story author, says that success is  "The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows".