It’s Not Your Fault That You’re Unsuccessful.

Your teachers were faulty

Gavin Wren
2 min readMay 8, 2020

Do you have visions of wild success that remain out of reach? Has life failed to provide the paycheque that you hoped to receive?

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault, your teaching was faulty.

Medium makes it easy to believe the absence of success is your fault. Work harder, be more productive, get up earlier, take cold showers, drink bulletproof, follow the habits of CEOs and read more books whilst being a digital nomad.

Popular stories proclaim answers, while you sit, lonely, broke and full of hope, trying to channel the joy of another’s success into your broken life. It’s not your fault.

Every action in life is determined by prior experiences. Failure is not a sign of doing something wrong, it signifies the parts of life where the teaching has been defective.

Blaming a baby for knocking over a cup would mark you as a psychopath. In time, the baby will learn not to knock cups over. Knocking out a policeman when you’re 32 isn’t your fault, in time you will learn not to knock policemen out. The baby and the 32 year old have things to learn, because until that point, they’ve have not understood what is wrong and that is not their fault.

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