Been wondering about success lately. What it means for me, to me and perhaps what it means to everyone else. If I take a step back and separate myself from what it means to me and try to generalise the definition, I'm left with ideas of wealth, happiness and accomplishment.
Accomplishment in doing what you set out to do, wealth in finding ways to make yourself benefit financially from your endeavours and goals and happiness being either a product of accomplishing the prior(wealth and accomplishment) or something else related to your work.
Success at times seems to be a business that generates wealth and functions to fulfil a need. At times, it's the effect of your work on you and others that is a success. Might certainly be missing something here..
I suppose the interesting thing for me is trying to understand why these definitions exist, should they apply to my life or how different my definition of success in life. I suppose it depends on what you define as your goal in life. Like getting married for one could be a goal, children? house? that could be your goal in life - that can be your success. But suppose, your goal is to leave a legacy, to be remembered, to stand out to do something exceptional. Not saying the other examples are not exceptional but they are more suited to the general generic purpose that us humans seem to reach every year, every decade every generation. Companies and business make and leave isolated legacy, most sales, best technological innovations, again not saying that the human condition is anything but technology advances but it's all to do with technology that we make important like computing, oil and such. Sure perhaps we improve the human condition because of this and that's perhaps thats how humans can make their mark. This is how most do it.
Unlike business successes, their are other kinds for instance mother teressa, Neil Armstrong, davinci, Mozart and others that haven't left their legacy in the wake of financial gain(again, not that that's a bad thing) and then you have the hybrids like Bill gates who'vr done a bit of everything, indeed philanthropists.
The more I write this post, the more evident it is that it has no inherent structure or definition but it serves well enough to explore my thoughts. Perhaps the most profound thought I have yet to fully explore is how and what my impact will be on this world.
One thing I'm fairly confident in though, is that one requires to start with a goal to reach. How one goes about reaching that goal, I suppose will be the story of your life.
Accomplishment in doing what you set out to do, wealth in finding ways to make yourself benefit financially from your endeavours and goals and happiness being either a product of accomplishing the prior(wealth and accomplishment) or something else related to your work.
Success at times seems to be a business that generates wealth and functions to fulfil a need. At times, it's the effect of your work on you and others that is a success. Might certainly be missing something here..
I suppose the interesting thing for me is trying to understand why these definitions exist, should they apply to my life or how different my definition of success in life. I suppose it depends on what you define as your goal in life. Like getting married for one could be a goal, children? house? that could be your goal in life - that can be your success. But suppose, your goal is to leave a legacy, to be remembered, to stand out to do something exceptional. Not saying the other examples are not exceptional but they are more suited to the general generic purpose that us humans seem to reach every year, every decade every generation. Companies and business make and leave isolated legacy, most sales, best technological innovations, again not saying that the human condition is anything but technology advances but it's all to do with technology that we make important like computing, oil and such. Sure perhaps we improve the human condition because of this and that's perhaps thats how humans can make their mark. This is how most do it.
Unlike business successes, their are other kinds for instance mother teressa, Neil Armstrong, davinci, Mozart and others that haven't left their legacy in the wake of financial gain(again, not that that's a bad thing) and then you have the hybrids like Bill gates who'vr done a bit of everything, indeed philanthropists.
The more I write this post, the more evident it is that it has no inherent structure or definition but it serves well enough to explore my thoughts. Perhaps the most profound thought I have yet to fully explore is how and what my impact will be on this world.
One thing I'm fairly confident in though, is that one requires to start with a goal to reach. How one goes about reaching that goal, I suppose will be the story of your life.