Character Over Clicks: Why Integrity Beats Influence Every Time
You are not as bad as you tell yourself you are.
You are not as good as other people tell you you are.
The truth is always somewhere in the middle.
Let me share a secret from what I’ve learned seeing behind the curtain in the world of“influencers” vs actual successful people.
The Key difference is that successful people don’t pay any attention to the wrong things people say about them, while at the same time not believing their own hype.
The trait that makes them successful is the willingness to approach everything with a student mindset.
However, influencers tend to look for the shortcut. They aspire to validation without a desire for the skill. They also tend to spend a lot of time politicking, using people for their gain, and burning bridges in their wake.
Successful people build bridges and then come back to help guide others across, often to their short-term detriment but always leading to long-term success.
We need to stop quantifying people’s value based on their vanity metrics.
If you look at someone’s metrics before you look at their character, you need to reprogram your brain.
There are people with millions of followers who bought them.
People with hundreds of followers can send one text and change your life.
People claim “authenticity” as just “keeping it real.”
Is it aspirational to spew negativity and burn bridges cause that is just how you feel? Keep it 100 authentic.
How about aspiring to be a better human?
Character is who you are when no one is watching.
Character > Influence
Integrity> Authenticity
