There’s a very seductive trap that people often fall into when they become successful. It goes something like this: Success eventually leads to arrogance where people become taken with themselves and their success. As a result, they slowly start to alienate the people who helped make them successful in the first place. Arrogance then leads to feelings of infallibility (I’m way too good to fail) which, in turn, leads to complacency (if things aren’t broken, why fix them?). Complacency then, sets the stage for the person’s downfall where someone eventually does come in and dethrone them which, in turn, leads to humility when the person finally realizes that their downfall was their own fault. They key to keeping this painful cycle from happening is to remain humble in spite of your success. If you do, the people who helped make you successful will see to it that you remain that way.
