Success Doesn’t Follow Common Paths
I remember when I read one of those “X Things To Do To Save Your Money” articles.
I remember thinking to myself, “Well, yes… I could do those things, but I don’t have the resources available to do any of them.”
For Whom
This led me to a phrase I often hear: For Whom?
The context that I understand it to mean is that the information provided is fine for a certain audience.
The question is, what audience is it prepared for?
Thus, “For whom?”
I started to think about the tomes of success models.
What I hear is people comparing their idea of success — or a trajectory to it — and what I should do to follow it.
Unfortunately, many of them don’t share the same backgrounds, identities, or have been recipients of the same level of bigotry that I have.
There are people who may have passed a class they were in simply because their skin color or socioeconomic status was perceived more knowledgeable than someone from a marginalized, underprivileged community.
I’ve had people tell me that the problem was that folks don’t want to work hard or strive to do better.
