“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe
and America: Don't aim at success -- the more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot
be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of
one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product
of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and
the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I
want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to
carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in
the long-run -- in the long-run, I say! -- success will follow you precisely
because you had forgotten to think about it.” -Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
