Success often tastes sweet, the flavor lingers on your palate, and once you’ve had a taste, you hunger for more.
The taste of grit and determination is the only thing that can prepare you for the sweet taste of success; the sweetness is amplified by the harsh and bitter taste that preceded it.
What’s unfortunate, is that many companies water down the sweet taste of success for their people. They don’t reward enough, and they remove the meaning from the work. The grit isn’t bitter, but bland. The success isn’t sweet enough to delight the palate and overwhelm the senses, but instead tastes artificial and empty.
As my company enters the next stage and our team grows, I want everyone to taste true success, to revel in the meaning and purpose of what they do, and to understand what it means to accomplish something that requires them to dig deep.
As an educator, I am not giving my students the answer and I am not trying to convince them that they should want to learn. Instead, I am giving them the tools to learn for themselves as it is done in the real world. By the end of the class, they should feel a greater sense of accomplishment than in any other class. That’s the goal.
We need more people who play the game hungry, looking for their next taste of true success. With both my company and my class, I am trying to build those people.