The Sunday Edit #002: Let's Talk About Success, Baby
Misconceptions around success, the link between humility and success, and letter of rec #002
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When I was fourteen, I decided that I was going to be a professional volleyball player when I grew up — and that was that. From that day forward, every choice I made and action I took was in pursuit of it: I joined my high school’s volleyball team, committed to going to practice every day and the occasional Saturday morning, and I even made the starting five my freshman year. That dream was short lived. By the time I reached my senior year, I redirected my energy, years after I should have, and came to realize that I didn’t really want to become a professional athlete. I wasn’t committed enough. I didn’t love it enough. I wasn’t even that good, if I’m honest.
A few years later, I quit playing volleyball entirely. I was no longer playing for my high school team nor the club travel team I had been with for a couple years. I was a senior in high school and had no clue where life was going to take me next. By the time I decided to enroll in college, I was already way later than the rest of my class. Everyone else had already committed to schools or were in the process of cherry picking their best options. Suddenly, it hit me — outside of volleyball, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life or career. It wasn’t until my dad put a bug in my ear about my natural love for fashion that I could turn that passion into a career. I researched a nearby fashion school in Los Angeles, FIDM, and got in contact with one of the faculty from the administration office. A few weeks later, I was at the school presenting my creative project. That same day, I was accepted. I started one month after my high school graduation. I was ecstatic.
I managed to get straight A’s for the majority of my time at FIDM — something I had never done in the rest of my educational career. That was my first taste of what success felt like, to me.
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