If Someone Is Constantly Boasting About Their Success, You Should Probably Leave Them
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” — Bruce Lee
As the pandemic hit the world, and there is still no clear information when things will go back to the way it is, businesses have been hit really hard.
That’s when the fake gurus, crypto, and stocks “advisers” and “entrepreneurs” wanna-be people boasting about their success amplifying their voices. They’re just everywhere now.
In their social media or face-to-face with you, they’d tell you how you were a loser like you and now they made thousands of dollars every day without working for anyone, how they work for themselves….. yadayadayada.
You get the point….
But the truth is, these people are probably working half the effort that most really successful people do.
Creating these type of contents also take a lot of efforts. And the more you boast about how much you made a day, the more of your efforts are used to do just that. Just take a quick look at fake gurus such as Dan Lok, where a YouTuber called Coffeezilla exposed his true business where he’s just selling courses and not really into the High Ticket Closing.
All these “get rich quick” schemes are just too good to be true.
I mean, have you ever seen Mark Cuban or Zuckerberg posting on Instagram how much he could earn in a day? Heck, even Billie Eilish, a teenager, knows better than to post anything about success lest she was asked to by interviewers. Take a good look on her Instagram, and she’s just showing about her work and the clothes that Fashion businesses had her to endorse.
That’s because these people have better things to do than to post about their success. They just do it.
As for the people boasting about how successful they are, how much money they earn (lest they are doing it to show everyone another way to make money), how fancy their houses are, their works are most probably just boasting and no effort is done.
NATO: No Action, Talk Only
This is like taking advice from single people when you want to go out on a date with someone. Most are terrible wingmen.
I’m sure you’ve heard this or seen people doing this. Many of these people just run their mouths but not their bodies, creating contents telling them about how successful they are by telling the same old advice:
- Word Hard
- Don’t give up
These terms are just romanticized and regurgitated nowadays, and it’s actually getting pretty infuriating.
Let’s take crypto “advisors” as an example. There are loads of them on social media, telling you how much they earn from investing in the blockchain. And then, they’ll tell you that you can do the same thing by buying their course, and these people are going to be their mentors, depending on how much you pay them.
But they are gamblers.
First things first on crypto, the market is very volatile, especially when some big people said something about them like Elon Musk. It can either go up or down.
But the problem is, we don’t know when or what these people would tweet. We didn’t know that China would block crypto all of a sudden, and that sent the crypto prices to tumble a lot.
And now, there has been much news about how people lost a lot of money because they joined the bitcoin trend. No research was done, only joining because of the herding trend.
Do these crypto ‘advisors’ know? Of course not! Just like everyone else! And now, every market is in recession. Including the stock market. All over the world, it has been down. How do you think these advisors can rebound when a recession is still happening now?
The Romanticized Young Entrepreneurs
I’m quite certain you’ve seen young people on social media also telling about how they “created” a successful business in their 20s. They shared their pictures where they bought a Ferrari or living in a mansion or on an expensive vacation or something like that.
Once again, there is another story behind their so-called “success”.
There is a study conducted by Harvard, that:
The average age of a successful startup founder is 45.
But hold on a minute. What about people like Elizabeth Holmes who made a business at 19 years old? What about the young people with Shopify business? What about those kids with cafe businesses?
Now, if you really dig into their true blueprints, you are going to find that these people didn’t even start anything from scratch. They just got it from their parents and called it their “own” business.
And yet, these people still have the audacity to boast about how successful their “business” is.
But what about people like Elizabeth Holmes who created a ‘successful’ start up at 19? Well, it turns out that she’s a scammer and is in court to face judgment for lying to her investors.
The only young entrepreneur I could think of that is really genuine and I believe really did start from scratch is the 17-year-old girl who made a slime business from her bedroom. I’m guessing the money to buy the supplies is from her parents, but she may have saved the pocket money to purchase them and get the business going. So kudos to them.
And the thing is, she didn’t boast about her successful business on social media.
Conclusion: Successful People Don’t Boast
“You guys know you’re the best, you don't have to tell anybody you are the best!” — Conan O’Brien
Last year, 2 days after Conan O’Brien, a late-night show host, accepted an invitation to speak at Oxford, he was approached by Cambridge. But ultimately, he decided to speak at Oxford, not because they spoke to him first.
But because of the content of the email that Cambridge gave to him.
“I’m also aware that Conan’s currently scheduled to visit Oxford for a similar event. It would be incredible if we can also feature in Conan’s busy calendar. The Cambridge Union is older than the Oxford union, by 8 years.
We out of the opinion, that students here at Cambridge are more engaged, attentive, and more prone to asking insightful questions as compared to their Oxford peers and would love the chance to prove this.”
The moment he got that email, he went: “Who writes crap like this??”
And thus, he appeared at Oxford Union and shared this story to them, and, indirectly, to the entire world. I’m certain Cambridge was hunting down the people who wrote that email to Conan.
So what does this mean for us?
It means that no one wants to hang around a prideful peacock. If all you do is talk, forget it. One person’s boast is a downfall to them, it’s been proven in history for a long time.
The best thing we want to do is shared a lot, even Pewdiepie said it himself. If you really want to be successful:
- Do what you love
- Stay humble
- Silence is golden
And like the fake gurus said:
3. Don’t give up
4. Work hard
It sounds cheesy, but this is what successful people do.
I hope you learn something here.
