Shortage and abundance | Seth’s Weblog

There are two methods to consider achievement and the concept of getting forward:

Maybe it’s a race. Getting forward means beating the competitors.

However maybe it’s merely an effort to maneuver ahead. A rising tide lifts all of the boats, and if you’d like your boat to have loads of water below it, that’s far more practical than attempting to push all the opposite boats down.

If we play video games the place we will win with out others dropping, we’re extra prone to succeed.

Luxurious items are primarily based on shortage. If everybody had a Birkin bag, it wouldn’t be value a lot.

However luxurious items don’t actually matter that a lot, significantly if the tradition we’re in is struggling.

Essentially the most resilient and efficient type of achievement is the resilience and peace of thoughts that comes from understanding that our work is contributing to a tradition that’s shifting ahead. Not so others lose, however so we discover a place that looks like successful.

Abundance scales. Shortage by no means does.

August 8, 2025