A few weeks ago, you may have seen a very sly mention of the very first blog post written for Spin Sucks (which was published at 11:35 p.m. and we wonder why no one read it).

I almost hate to mention it again because it was so bad. But I do so because, as of September 11 (yes, the anniversary), we have been blogging for six years and I thought it’d be interesting to take a look back.

You see, as human beings (particularly in America where our society honors the great achievements), we tend to look at success and think people got there overnight. For some reason, we also think successful people must put their pants on differently or have clones or somehow have more hours in the day than the rest of us or don’t need to sleep or maybe even are cyborgs.

Americans also have this really weird idea that they’ll get rich quick or lose weight fast or truly become an overnight success.

When, in fact, none of that is true.

We’re all people. We all make mistakes. We all have failures. We all screw up. And we certainly don’t get rich or lose weight or become successful overnight. (more…)