Sometimes, when you go to a dinner party, the people around you are enthralled by all that you do and say. Other times, you feel like you're invisible. Followers and leaders fall into patterns of helplessness and powerfulness - and wage a civil war through sabotage and mutual distrust. Chaos - if it's out there, it's in here. The world is changing so rapidly and so unpredictably that a product that's hot one moment will be cold 10 seconds later.
Fleeting success is a prescription for insecurity.
Your life is one extended report card. You believe that you've sold out. They feel they might have been a different person, a better person, if they had gone another route. You feel the need to justify the choices you've made - so you end up wanting to destroy not who you are but who you never became. You may not copy, republish, redistribute or exploit in any manner any material from these pages without the express written consent of Fast Company.