What is Success?

I believe success cannot be defined in dictionary manner. And I think it's pretty much personal thing - you may consider yourself successfull and I can think that I am not successfull (given that I am in same situation as you are), and we will still both be right, because our personal impression is probably the only thing that matters

This is a very broad question. No simple answer is coming from me. But I would suggest one component: success is being happy with what you've got just as much, or more so, that getting what you want.

Have you ever wondered why they replaced "life, liberty, and property" with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?" Is happiness really a synonym for property?




Edit: Wrong order

succes is to reach anything

Did they really replace "pursuit of happiness?"

If I look at the happiness quota - I am a success. If I look at career, goals, etc. because I expect so much from myself I am not a success.

Contentment.

success is 'happiness' with 'baggage' (notice all those doubbbble letters - that should telllll you something!)

and actual success is achieved when you get rid of the baggage!

and to enlarge somewhat upon that semi glib definition;

success seems to be about 'things', or perhaps the magnitude of the 'things' themselves, or the magnitude of the quantity, and expense thereof.
In the worst cases this success accounting exercise includes human beings, considered as 'belongings'.

a real understanding of success came to me upon the realization that 'things' have no importance beyond the simple utility of the most basic; and life develops meaning in inverse proportion to one's desire to possess.

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Wise words, BoGoWo. By the way, are you male or female? I'm thinking of the photo of you with JOEblow. One of you is a gorgeous gal, but it didn't say which one.

Having butt sex with two hot asian twin sisters at once?

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How did you get THAT past the monitors? Asian twins????

yes! - after the gorgeous gal, i'm the 'leftover'!



and slappy; where did the pretext for that inimical comment appear?

It's success, baby.

Having a dream.

I think it depends on each person's own definition. Personal happiness, family, achieving goals, contributing to human progress, amassing wealth, or gaining power may all be considered "success."

I like Emerson's definition best: "To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

-- Albert Einstein

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Terry, it may sound counterintuitive but Nietzsche greatly appreciated Emerson.