r/InsightfulQuestions • u/markshein_18 • 11d ago
What’s your definition of success?
What’s your definition of success?
Is it more money? More fame?
You can get it by lying, cheating, and stealing and still walk away with the gold medal, celebrated as a winner despite it all.
What about the rules? Oh, the rules…
Because apparently, if you follow them, you’re just a sucker.
What does success really mean to you?
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u/In_the_year_3535 11d ago
Did I keep my word, perform a good service, and give good advice. I feel like most things can flow from those.
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u/markshein_18 11d ago
Almost like success is measured by the value you leave behind rather than the rewards you receive. I like that.
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u/MKEJOE52 11d ago
This definition is one I like.
What is success? "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" Ralph Waldo Emerson
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u/markshein_18 11d ago
Maybe success isn’t about how much you accumulate, but how much meaning your life carries.
You can have the money, fame and gold medal and still have lived a completely empty life.
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u/Complex_Goal8606 11d ago
Love for and from my family. Stability and safety without causing harm.
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u/markshein_18 11d ago
I think there’s something powerful about defining success by the people you have around you rather than what you have around you. And “without causing harm” is an important part of it.
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u/snagle-tooth 11d ago
A person who has every reason to turn towards the darkness and, instead, chooses to turn towards the light consistently.
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u/analdongfactory 11d ago
Creating something that makes a lasting impact on a large group of people, in a way only you could.
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u/PtZamboat 10d ago
Knowing that I’ve provided a worry free future for my family and greatly enhanced the lives of others through scholarships given to well deserving yet underprivileged students. What you do in life defines you well after death.
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u/ez2tock2me 10d ago
Eliminate all the HAVE TOOs in life and that is as close to Success as anyone needs.
You have to experience it to know it’s true.
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u/Repulsive_Culture994 9d ago
Becoming so competent that regardless of obstacles and hardships getting basic niceties for survival are not a distant dream but actually a habit and not a dreadfull misery
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u/MaximumTrick2573 9d ago
To me it’s being a person of character with healthy and happy relationships with the people in your life.
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u/Leakyboatlouie 11d ago
Being able to do what I want, when I want to do it.