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I define success as things like a multi-millionaire business person, sports star, a singer with global success etc. Something which many aspire to, but few people achieve.
Nobody can define "success" for anybody but themselves. Our vastly diverse life circumstances, values and experiences make any such judgment a fool's errand.
Most people however, have little difficulty relating their own measure of success with the pursuit of happiness, and Ghandi expressed happiness as...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
In other words, when your manifest self is free to be your conscious self, in all circumstances that you find yourself in.
Since I strongly relate happiness (and therefore success) to the ability to be free to choose how I spend every waking moment, I get exactly what he is saying.
Op, and others on here might want to muse on that for a while.
By sheer coincidence, I was out walking last night with my much younger, multi-millionaire (businessman) mate and we were discussing this very subject. And whilst he is (by a factor of 10) way more wealthy than me, neither of us would say he was any more successful.
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Something which many aspire to, but few people achieve.
...people (and I agree there are many, way too many) who foolishly aspire to such things because they place wealth, materialism and celebrity at their value-centre are pretty much f***d from the get go.
The vast majority of the world's over-achievers get where they are not by aspiring for the trappings of wealth, but by aspiring (and working their asses off) to be the best they can be. Wealth is but an outcome.
Last edited by Fatboy54; 06-05-2018 at 02:06 AM.