The Biggest Delusion

I t's safe to say that the people fortunate enough to have their most basic needs fulfilled and secured throughout their lives are faced with increasingly counter intuitive challenges that continuously manage to turn up the difficulty. Think of it as the game of life's ingenious built-in system to ensure a consistent level of challenge and infinite replay-ability. None the less, with the advent of the internet, guides and walkthroughs for virtually all levels can be uploaded secure in the knowledge that almost everyone from any level can possibly seek out their own personal solutions. So any advice offered is never really wasted, provided it's made easily available. Even if it isn't, no effort is ever wasted in general, but that's another topic in itself. With that outlandish introduction out of the way, I want to talk about the single biggest misconception so prevalent that it manages to hold people back in innumerable ways regardless of their level. It is the ide...