Success and Social Media

Is there a certain age we should be expected to be successful? What is the price of doing anything in your power for success at a young age?

In today's internet age we find ourselves having picture after picture of fancy clothes, vehicles, and a variety of other nice things we should all know we don't NEED but we want anyway. Often times the people showing us these extravagant images aren't our peers, but more likely people we've never met on the internet who got lucky and found the right niche at the right time, but this doesn't ever stop us from trying to compare ourselves to them. This on its own may not be inherently dangerous, however young people more and more seem to fall into a trap of believing if they aren't accomplishing everything one of these celebrities have they are a failure or somehow not up to par.

Take young men who may want to look like Dwayne Johnson, or young women that may want to start their own beauty line and model like some of the Kardashian sisters. There isn't anything wrong with these pursuits it would be extremely important to remember that those people ad very specific situation that lead to success. Dwayne Johnsons father and grandfather were wrestling legends in that industry which gave him and easy in and while he has made the most of his success on his own more than any professional wrestler most likely he still had a lot of luck his side. The Kardashian family had oodles of money even before any one of there scandals they profited from, to say that the sisters made all their fortune from being great business woman is a huge oversight when the only reason they had the money to start these companies was for reasons very much out of their control.

I want to reiterate I have nothing against people to wish to be rich and famous or even be social media stars. I do however think it can be very dangerous for every young person to expect success from themselves at young ages when more often than not time and practice are what will hone your craft and get you to where you be and the pictures of flashy things on social media don't show you that.

Remember that luck and who you know is also a huge part of success as well. Even people wo put in all the right work sometimes only barely scrape by, but you will always get farther by comparing yourself to who you were yesterday as opposed to who celebrities are today. People like Mark Cuban or Chinese billionaire Jack Ma didn't become successful until the they were nearly in there 30's but now they are some of the most successful people in the world cuz they stayed focused and hustled. They certainly did not stare at Instagram posts of people bragging about their own success so I don't think you should either.

I am personally pursing a degree in finance and there are time if I don't just focus on my own success and get lost looking at others this is when it becomes easiest to falter and believe I'm not good enough or what I am doing is not worth it. It's moments like these I find it most important to stay away from social media and noise caused by other people and their personal success or failures.

Anyone who reads this I really hope you consistently just hustle, study, and put in all the necessary effort to raise yourself up to wherever you want to be in life and don't let any of these social media posts discourage who because you are young, you've got time, use it.