Any misstep and you would end up in the abyss because the road to success is incredibly narrow and almost everyone gets thrown onto the industrial scrapheap because they took a step off the path.
What gave you that idea? Did you create it yourself? Did it come from your parents? Other adults? From the schools?
I have absolutely no idea. It came from perfectionism somehow.
That and the fact that there were only a limited number of Fortune 500 CEOs, and only one President, etc.
So there were very few chairs and lots and lots of people, so lots of people were losing the game of life and the chances of winning were extremely slim.
And you had to do everything absolutely correctly for decades in order to achieve major objectives.
Plus, I knew that I didn't know anyone who was actually relevant in life.
My perception of things were that the people who I grew up with didn't matter in the larger scheme of things and had essentially failed to make anything of themselves.
