The key to life is self creation, all else does not count. I was reading in a Napoleon Hill essay about a baby who was born into complete wealth, "advantage" and privilege, and did not even have to do anything for itself, not even dress. One day, when the child was in the garden playing, the servants were not watching and then he ran out into the street and without knowing what was coming the child got hit by a car. The point to me using part of this story is, that making yourself without help and lots of self made strength is the ultimate virtue and power; all else is weakness. Sure, that kind of self made strength comes from all types of experience, temporary failure, and genuinely permanent success when earned. I say temporary failure, because when seeking genuine success, all seeming failure is temporary and transitory when thought about and acted upon objectively and logically. Sure, the emotional fear and all of that can be there, but objectivity and logic have to work with it like the sun rises slowly in the sky after a long night and lights up the day.
So, to be a winner from deep within is the ultimate virtue that never misses the mark, even when it seems to at times of temporary failure and temporary life loathing. When considering the possible, everything is possible through the right and genuine use of any real principle or law. As flight was considered impossible to man before it happened, so is anything certainly and logically possible with effort as everything is ultimately learnable and applicable in existence to something in reality.
Even the most useless seeming snail darter fish near the bottom of the ocean is useful for something other than being a "nasty seeming" bottom feeding fish at the deep of the ocean. Everything has a purpose, and under that purpose there is a reality that it works for ultimately, even if we do not see it creatively yet. I emphasise the word "yet" because as function monitors structure, law monitors principle, and logic monitors application as puzzle pieces fit together. Think about that principle, and then act upon it. Because that is the genuine key to all invention and innovation. Indeed, reality is not creative really, it acts "coldly" upon principle, but consciousness is creative. That is what I mean by function monitors structure in the case of this article and all of my articles. Creativity comes from consciousness, but raw material comes from reality which must be shaped into the material that works. Creativity or self creation realistically is the genuine key that opens the door to realistic fulfillment, all else does not count.
My name is Joshua Clayton, I am a freelance writer based in Inglewood, California. I also write under a few pen-names and aliases, but Joshua Clayton is my real name, and I write by that for the most part now. I am a philosophical writer and objective thinker and honest action taker.
I also work at a senior center in Gardena, California as my day job, among other things, but primarily I am a writer.
