failure help: Successful Person = Myth ( Success / Failure is only a SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED Label of a Person’s Worth :) - Help.com

Very philosophical. I totally agree :)

I disagree. If you state your own goals. And you achieve your own goals, in a way that was better then you could ever imagine by yourself. Doesn’t that make you succesfull over yourself?

If we achieve succes by overcomming ourselves, are we not succesfull?

You should write a book and title it: “The Fallacy of Success.”

If not, I will:)

are you just lacking personal succes maybe?

Yeah, I disagree with this on a number of levels.

I sometimes think its right however, and a recent delve into the subject brought ’success is a secular notion’ up, which I quite liked. The idea being that ’success’ or a ’successful person’ is usually associated with money, cars, fame etc. and never with spirituality, which is fine, but it should be noted that the vast majority of happy people live with others in sight and in mind, and try to live making other people’s lives happier, which is the nicest form of spirituality isn’t it, and has absolutely nothing to do with money, cars, fame, sexy girls etc.

On a note about ’society’ though; ’society’ is made up of people who do things for each other. Build schools, bridges, cities, companies etc. and we usually do this out of a sense of duty to each other because we recognize that we’re not totally alone and individual and separate, but rather, that we’re much more alike than different, and that we’re all on the same journey together. This is where the majority of ’success’ lies, and where you can find the majority of successful people.

The middle class is the set of people who typically, are successful at finding a house, car, family, job, money, satisfaction, kids, etc. putting them in schools, university, etc. and they are full of little failures and unaccomplished ideas, but they pull through because of a basic faith in themselves and in their society, i.e. each other.

Bottom line? Success is where you find it. But the most rewarding thing in life is to have others find success in you. I guess that means that we need to study the word more closely.

Success is the short form of ’sucession’
Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence.
Didn’t expect that, did you?

oops - ‘Success’ is the short form and the result of “Succession”.
My bad.

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I think it’s intriguing to discuss such an abstract doctrine, if that is how it should even be classified, nevertheless success is an all-inclusive perception and is usually aspired by eveyone in some way or another. Success has to be embraced as an ocular assumption though, thus it will never be unanimously confirmed as one undisputed interpretation. So now, when you analyze success thoroughly, it tends to become far more mystifying for one person to infer that the multitude is entitled to succeed in life according to utility or beauty. Someone could be successful for having the faculty to survive another day on this earth whether they are a vagrant or sustain a ideal house. To my understanding, that is unmistakably attributed to success, perhaps not the most prevalent apprehension of success, but success nonetheless. So the question still strikes me as: why do people still think success is associated with prosperity and attainment when eventually, your money will deplete the happiness you once thought was success? When the cognition of success is distinguished and diversified, then you might possibly be in pursuit of the best fortune success has to offer.