Zor, I didn't say success didn't bring happiness. Fulfilment of ones desire is the source of much satisfaction. I was talking about changing perception and finding joy in other things rather than JUST/ONLY the success. Only enjoying sport if your team wins is a sure fire way to increase bitterness. Of course you'll be happy if it wins, but by taking the harder route and choosing to find enjoyment in the game itself rather than ONLY the victory, should let you be happy more frequently.
Sayings like "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted" are along these lines. You often learn more from a negative or painful experience than a happy positive one - an unfortunate reality. The saying "you don't know what you've got till it's gone" holds similar truth to this.
In creating music you need to create some bad ideas to find good ones. Like panning for gold. This works in picking the right note to end a line, the right harmony to the line, the lyric that supplements the emotion, or even picking between finished songs to play or record. Some clangers are created before the gems appear.
It's easy to look at the glass of water and say "It's half empty". It's harder to say "It's half full", and harder again to say "What a miracle this water is!"
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