What is Success?
People define success in many ways.
Many people define success in terms of money and societal position and those that have either or both are often resented by those that do not, regardless of how hard they might have worked for their success.
Some people feel that equal outcomes are more appropriate than equal opportunity to achieve success.
Most people are unaware of the path successful people have followed and therefore have no appreciation for the amount if individual effort that was required, regardless of the fortuitousness or hardship of the position from which a successful person began their life journey.
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It is more productive to apply ourselves to working towards our own success than it is to envy others or to resent others for the success they have achieved.
My grandfather used to tell me that "hard work is its own reward" - I am not sure I agree with that literally, but his point was that people who are happy in their chosen work thrive in the challenge of hard work rather tan shy from it.
Success means different things to different people. I think that the American society and popular culture downplay all but one of these ways that success can be viewed and inserts money as the reward and virtue; the end-all be-all of success. As a result, we get the stilted view that money is equal to success, that therefore if you are rich you have succeeded, and that lack of money is the antithesis of success, or in other words, lack of money equals failure.
I used to subscribe to this view of money and success, but then I looked and found that not all success is rewarded monetarily, and that some things that are not laudable or proper are egregiously rewarded with mountains of cash.
Brolly
Thanks for the feedback and perspective
I agree with your explanation of success for the most part - there are different ways to be successful and being successful in your own mind and eyes is much more important than comparing your success to that of others or to what others say success is.
Success is to crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
Sean
A strange and disturbing perspective in my view, but thanks for sharing it
Dean
I would agree that what success is can be changeable over time and that a cyclical, repetitive pattern of goals is possible.
I would differ on that those various cyclical goals are but appreciate our sharing your perspective
LOL!
When John Russell totally disagrees with the topic of an article or seed, you know that you have posted something really good!