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Try-Hard Losers are the Real Winners.

Why people who try to improve frequently become the subject of ridicule?

Over the years, I have noticed many patterns in how humans interact with each other.

One of the patterns I’ve noticed is that individuals striving for self-improvement frequently become the subject of ridicule by others.

They are often called try-hard losers.

Steven Spielberg is a renowned film director whose cinematic output has grossed more than $9 billion.

What most people don’t know is that he has had dyslexia his whole life and was even made fun of by his classmates. He has trouble reading and would read at half the speed compared to most people.

Just think, if he had been concerned about appearing like a try-hard loser, where might he be now?

Tell me about anyone who didn’t try hard to accomplish great things.

If you find yourself in a challenging situation and are making efforts to improve, don’t let the discouragement of others, particularly those who might be in a similar situation and want you to remain there, hold you back.

The reason they mock you for trying hard is the exact reason why they will never get better. They don’t understand the simple concept that in order to get good at something, you must try hard.

Remember, it’s your future that you’re fighting for. Today’s ‘try-hard losers’ are tomorrow’s winners.

Failure Is Good!

We often dare not try to become better because we fear that those who hope for us to fail might be right.

We think, "How embarrassing if I fail and everyone who told me I'd fail were right. Now they'll laugh even harder."

So we'd rather not even try so that we can't fail.

But when we do that, we're letting others have power over us and it does not benefit us at all.

Sure we won't fail at succeeding if we don't try. But now we're just succeeding at being a failure.

We're so conditioned by the system to think of failure as a bad thing.

The school marks us on how much we know about each subject we're tested on. As if the marks are an indication of how we'd do in real life situations.

Is an infant who's learning to walk and ends up falling considered a failure to you? Only an insane person would think that.

Or is that something you'd encourage? "Good job! Keep trying!", is what I'd say to the infant. Because I know that each time he falls, he's learned something.

Eventually we learn to walk, and then run. But we must fall first, many times.

To those who mock us for trying, let them be insane.