Some people are happy but not successful, some people are successful and not happy, while some people are both happy and successful, therefore you can be happy but not successful, successful but not happy, and you can also be happy and successful. Success doesn't necessarily guarantee happiness, if you think that you will be happy after you achieve success, please take care. However, what's interesting is that the erroneous belief/thought(I will be happy after I achieve success) can act as a big motivation factor that motivates you to do what it takes to succeed, therefore this erroneous belief/thought may help you succeed, but of course it will also make you disillusioned after you achieve success. The same thought can make you very unhappy in the present moment while driving you to succeed in the near future.
However, being depressed definitely prevents you from success. The more depressed you are, the less likely that you will achieve success.
Our emotions can make us unhappy, but it can also help us succeed. For example, if you see that your old classmates make much more money than you and live in a very good house but you don't, and you feel shame, you can channel that strong feeling of shame into a burning desire to make more money to overtake your classmates. Let your emotions help you succeed, don't let your emotions hinder you from succeeding, but in the meantime please understand in your heart of hearts that your unhappiness or bad feelings are caused by your thoughts, not by not succeeding, so you won't kill yourself in case that you don't succeed.
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