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This is the Kryptonite to Your Success
Superman is essentially invincible. He can fly, use x-ray vision, heat vision, cold breath, super-speed and has superhuman strength. Not to mention that he’s virtuous and handsome. He’s almost boring with how awesome he is.
It is this tiresome narrative that possibly led to the introduction of Kryptonite in the Superman comics in 1949. Suddenly, Superman had a weakness after all. It added to the drama and gave villainy a chance to win.
We aren’t too different from Superman (if you don’t count the superpowers). We have our weakness too. Once it is introduced, we are rendered useless. Even if we are able to summon the strength to take action, it somehow always falls flat or we self-sabotage.
We may not lose consciousness or have our skin turning green, but our constant failure to enact change in our lives may cause us to be green with envy at those who are doing what we cannot or to drown in self-pity.
It isn’t a physical issue that we have. It isn’t our body, class, race, sex, sexual orientation, education or upbringing. We have too many examples of people who defied the odds in these categories and more and achieved legendary statuses.
The issue is in the mind. It is a line of code in our programming that once we give it a value of TRUE, it will wreak havoc. It is our…
