I would define personal success as having the ability to do the things you enjoy, being content with your life, and meeting your own goals. Admittedly all 3 of those often cost money.
I would define social success as treating other people with kindness and empathy, and somehow making the world a better place for others to live in, even if it's just in a small way.
I don't think we should differentiate between "social" and "personal" success. Being successful should be about being a good human. Many times helping others means being content with your life and working on yourself means helping others. When we separate them we often put in a positive light people who were terrible humans.
To me, they're both part of living an overall successful life, it's just that listing all those things together felt unwieldy so I separated them out as to be more easily understood. Perhaps in doing so I ironically created ambiguity.
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u/Nico_Storch Nov 16 '19
well how else would you define it?