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Originally Posted by JinnKai
You're failure ONLY if you let depression prevent you from FURTHER succeeding, or you use "depression" as an excuse for being a failure, like the OP clearly stated.
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I read the OP very carefully before I posted, but I still don't understand why you are singling out depression for condemnation. From your argument, ANY excuse used for failure is unacceptable.
In my case, I basically pissed away today bitching and moaning about one single account, albeit a very big account. I was not successful today, and I'm man enough to admit its because I was upset about yesterday's turn of events. However, financially I was a big success because I wrote another large deal today - the groundwork for that was laid months ago and we executed on our plan last week with today's order being a simple formality. I was depressed yet I was successful. Today was a failure but a success.
My point is that you are oversimplifying this issue to an amazing extent. The reverse of your argument should be true - happiness breeds success. That could not be farther from the truth in the real world. I know lots of unsuccessful happy people.