There is a 99% chance that your struggles will never cease, no matter how successful you become.
But this can’t be true! What if one achieves superlative success?
How many successful entrepreneurs have you seen who go into quiet retirement after a huge success? How many fund managers stop raising new funds because their previous one was a blockbuster (and made them lots of money)?
Practically zero. Because when we don’t have struggles, we invent them.
Personally, I have seen someone worth $100 million landing in trouble because he craved to be a billionaire and probably did something questionable. And even those who make billions are figuring out what to do after that (or with that money).
Even when there are no struggles, we create them because, believe it or not, we get used to the struggle.
In management theory, there is a Peter’s Principle, which postulates that people rise to their level of incompetence.
So let me propose a variation of Peter’s Principle: People keep doing more till they reach their baseline level of struggle.
So if you are struggling, here is bad news: It won’t end. Because if it ends, you will find something else.
– Rajan