ADVICE: 5 Reasons why success is the best revenge
Put the knife down, Jim. There's a better way to get your revenge - it's called "success". Image from Hemera/Thinkstock.
Ever been so mad that you wanted to yell at someone? What about so mad that you wanted to get physically violent?
Before you go down that route, ESM offers up a much better solution to your problems. Instead of a short term, temporary solution to your problem (which could potentially lead to incarceration), go the long term route.
Don’t get mad. Don’t yell. Don’t do something stupid.
Instead, focus all that energy on doing one thing – becoming successful.
Because for us here at ESM, the best revenge is not served cold. The best revenge is to be more successful than you could have ever imagined.
I AM AAAAAWEEESOOOOOMEEE! Success is the best revenge. Image from Thinkstock Images/Comstock/Thinkstock.
We’re not exclusively talking about money or power either. Sometimes success just means becoming a much better person then who you are now (and yeah, sometimes that means money and power).
Much like the long con (see: Ocean’s Eleven), success is a much more satisfying reward with a much higher payoff.
Although succeeding in your life usually doesn’t need a reason, we’ve got 5 good reasons you should choose success as the long term satisfaction to exact revenge on your opponent.
Reason #5 Success is the Best Revenge: Your Ex
Remember that girl (or dude – depending on your preference) that broke up with you and shattered your heart because she thought you weren’t good enough? What about that girl that left you for someone else?
Forget about stalking. Don’t even think about writing letters. Use that painful memory to become ridiculously awesome.
Just ask ESM Icon Barney Stinson. He got over his heartache by “suiting up” and becoming who he is today. When he finally met up with the girl that broke his heart, he got his revenge.
Reason #4: Anyone that doubted you
Ever had that former employer that thought you weren’t cut out for a job? What about that colleague that thought they were much better than you? What about your friend that thought you couldn’t do it?
Just let it all fuel that fire of success. And let that fire BLAZE.
Reason #3: The ultimate satisfaction
Angry words are a temporary solution. Angry thoughts of you doing angry things aren’t constructive.
Get the ultimate satisfaction of knowing you have forged yourself into a better person. This feeling never goes away when you are successful.
Reason #2: The positive side-effects
We mentioned money and power could be side-effects in striving for success (not too shabby).
The less superficial side-effects? Happiness. Satisfaction with your life. Surrounding yourself with better people. Awesomeness (did we say that already?).
Reason #1: You
Bro, you should be the reason you want to be successful.
Why beat yourself up? Why be sad? Why not pick yourself up and show everyone what you can do by being successful?
So the next time someone pisses you off, instead of doing something silly and small that will probably have no effect on them, do something much better – become insanely successful.
That’ll show ‘em.
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Much easier said than done. Case in point, it usually takes money to make money. And almost always a LOT of it. Yes, you can get lucky. But the reality for those aspiring for success in today’s world (we’re talking your average joe, age 21-40 something, normal hourly job, $15-25k a year) is extremely difficult. And by difficult, I mean it’s almost entirely built on luck. So yes, success IS the best tool for revenge. But you need a lot of luck to make it happen. Or money, in which case you were already lucky at some earlier point.
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