“Whom the Gods wish to destroy,” wrote literary critic Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.”16 The moment we think we’ve made it is the moment we stop learning and growing. When we’re in the lead, we assume we know the answers, so we don’t listen. When we think we’re destined for greatness, we start blaming others if things don’t go as planned. Success makes us think we have the Midas touch—that we can walk around turning everything into gold.
It is just as important to keep working when you succeed as it is when you fail.
