I didn't mean to imply that those who have emotions aren't successful people; I was referring to those who put an emphasis on them. Emotions make people short sighted and irrational when one often needs to make rational, logical decisions to truly be successful in life. Emotions are a good thing. Too much of any good thing is a bad thing, however.

For example: how would one go about solving world hunger? Send 1 million dollars of food and medical supplies to children in Africa? Somebody who is guided by their emotions might make such a decision, but would doing that really solve the problem at hand? No. To solve a problem such as that, instead of investing money and resources into food itself, one would need to invest said resources into fixing the problem at hand by providing those people with the means to feed themselves. Even if more children died in the short term, in the long term, many more children would be saved. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day or teach a man how to fish and feed him for a lifetime as they say.

I know I used an extreme example, but such logic is relevant in many aspects of life and the primary thesis on what I choose to make my claim about. Yes, such an example isn't relevant in all aspects of human success, but in many instances, logic trumps emotion.

As for how this thread relates to me personally, let me just clarify my "mixed messages" that I seemed to send:

It takes much less effort for me to suppress my emotions than to deal with them. I'm far too busy to deal with my feelings, which serve me no real purpose and hold me back. I'm a full time college student, a part time college employee, and I will own my own corporation starting in Sept. I don't have the time, nor the energy to deal with my feelings right now, and doing so in such a critical time in my life would only risk to derail my goals that I worked so hard to achieve.

Even if that wasn't the case, I prioritize my own success and ambitions over establishing emotional connections with people. Yes, sometimes not having intimate relationships with people hurts. Sometimes, I do get incredibly lonely and crave a woman's affection. Most of the time, however, I am perfectly content with focusing on my life and my goals and spending what little free time that I have playing video games or watching anime instead of socializing, for example. On the rather rare occasion that any feelings of loneliness or needing to be loved or accepted start to kick in, I have become an expert at keeping them at bay by forcing my mind to think about other things. Such feelings won't be an asset to my ambitions so why should I care about them?

If any of my posts offended or upset you, I apologize in advance. I sometimes can be a bit controversial. I do appreciate your input, however.