Hate to say it, but you sound like you're victimizing yourself. You're not a victim. And victimhood mentality likely played a large role in your failure. Try to change your mindset and try again when you feel you're ready.
Does this kind of pseudo-self-help-tough-love help anyone? Whenever I read something like that I do not feel motivated but enraged. Sometimes people are really victims. Mainly of chance.
Yes, there is a lot of research in this area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth_minds...
I interpret is as being able to ask yourself "what did I learn" when you fail; and realizing that most success comes from trying over and over. ("Most" because some people are lucky and succeed the first time.)
In general, people who adopt the growth mindset, (see the link,) are more successful.
I did see the link. Nothing about success, tiny bit about school performance. Have you seen the link?
"I tried everything [I was supposed to]" "But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere." "It was as if the world was against me" "no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress" "It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship." "please don't be fooled by the false promises"
Blaming everyone but themselves. They sound very entitled and they claim that they deserve it. Sorry. That's not how you win and that's not how any of this works.
Did I make a generalization? I am specifically talking about the OP.
This person is not a victim of chance, obviously. They tried hard [hopefully] and it didn't work, and then blamed everyone else.
What did they try to do? Get rich via a startup.
No one on the planet is entitled to millions of dollars. Very likely they can get a job for $100k+ - better than most Americans.
Yet even then - they blamed everyone else. You don't win by blaming others. If you can't admit your own faults, you're doomed as a startup founder.
It doesn't matter if this was chance or not, but I assure you this circumstance had nothing to do with luck.
turning this question around to you:
have you ever managed to "change your mindset"?
assuming you have changed your mindset, did it materially change your circumstances?
Because if you're still in a hole, "being mindful" isn't going to affect that.
Not GP, but yes and yes. Personal growth is indeed possible!
The entitled OP claims they deserve millions of dollars (via a successful startup) - all they had to do was try.
They then blamed everyone else for their failure except themselves. You will NEVER succeed in a startup if you cannot accept fault and be a leader. Actually, my reply is the ONLY reply they need. They don't need to be babied.
Reread their post:
"I tried everything [I was supposed to]" "But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere." "It was as if the world was against me" "no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress" "It was like I didn't even exist in the world of entrepreneurship." "please don't be fooled by the false promises"
All of the advice in the other comments do NOT matter at all if the OP cannot look in the mirror and self-reflect on what THEY did wrong --- NOT what others did wrong.
This is fundamental. They clearly don't do this currently. Before doing this, nothing else matters, none of the other advice will work, and they CERTAINLY will fail again if they do not fix this first.