If you spend your life trying to lift yourself up to the grand status of standing on the peak of a mountain of importance, then you are dooming yourself to fall to your your death. Even if you succeed in reaching the top there are only two possible outcomes. In the first, somebody just as great as you will climb up and push you off. In the second, the world will forget about you, forget that you are standing there with your achievements, and will leave you to grow so weary that you will eventually lose your balance and strength and tumble down. Either way, you end in failure.

Lasting success comes from helping others climb out of the crevasses, so they may enjoy the freedom of roaming on the valley floor and wandering over the foothills.

Focus on how you are treating others and what you are leaving for your children, your grandchildren, and future generations to come, and you will achieve greatness. Focus on building your own legacy, and you will be mocked.

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