Why Scundrels rule?

I caught an article in the paper titled Why scundrels rule. Its a must read if you want to know what it takes to stake out the crowd and make it happen where most people fail.

It is also a good way of life: you do what you want, how you want it. But there is pitfalls that must be watched. It is said that those who make it (not all of them but most) have a particular trait with psychopaths. They do what they want regardless of the opinions of others. And that I find is one of the most important aspect in getting an edge. How many times did I see capable people renouncing just because they where afraid of what people might think.

I have one simple example of this that happened this week. I'm in a group that is forming to go to the Kilimandjaro. We decided that we would sell stuff to finance the project. We have no cause. All the money belongs to us. We don't ask for charity, we give value for value: you like our product, you buy it and we are happy to sell it to you. Period. What we do with the money is none of the people's business.

But there is one of the girl in the group this week that quitted. She was uneasy with the fact that we are not giving the money to a cause of some sort. So she was affraid of being taken for selfish because we were keeping the money.

See? This girl is willing to let go of a once in a lifetime trip because she is afraid of what people might think of her.

THAT is the mark of failure. THAT is the signs of weakness. All grat people I've seen in history were able to atchieve what they did because they gave little importance of what people might think.

Read the article. Its worth reading. And it gives good advises if you want to get a strategic edge on how to live you life.