Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast that succeeds at connecting philosophy to contemporary

life. I'm Ellie Anderson. And I'm David Peña Guzman. David, if you Google philosophy success,

you are likely not to find anything actually philosophical, what you are likely instead to find anything actually philosophical.

What you were likely instead to find, I'm not sure if you found this too,

is a bunch of sort of corporate BS about like eight hacks for success.

So I actually had a hard time initially like linking into the research for this episode

because it was just a wall

of like corporate stuff. Yeah, I got a lot of like five steps to make your company successful,

a lot of like how to and a lot of manuals. And it was also a lot of like, I am the CEO of such and

such. Here is my philosophy for success.

Exactly. Exactly. That was it. And so my next step, and don't worry, these weren't my only

two steps. We are better researchers than this. But my next step was to Google philosophy success

quotes. And I found some real gems. So I want to start off the episode today by sharing some of

what I found. And part of what I found was a lot of quotes that were attributed to people that then

when I tried to follow up the references, I could find no references for. So this happens a lot,

right? It's like brainyquote.com and there's

absolutely no reference for where this quote actually came from. And so you might remember from

our gossip episode listener is that there's like this viral. Socrates triple filter for gossip

that indeed maps on to nothing Socrates actually said. This is like sort of what I found with

the success quotes. So I'm

going to read you three quotes about success, which may or may not have been said by the people

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