What is "Success"?

[EolTheDarkElf]

Personal success is when you feel you've achieved one. Yah, that's recursive, but somehow this is how I think of it. Just as true happiness comes when you realise you're feeling happy.

Everything in life is relative, for some people success is getting out of bed and making a step. So that's the closest I can come.

 

[BCLG100]

I was watching The Apprentice some intellectual programme about metaphysics when a gentleman on the show documentary started to discuss his life and how he claimed he was "much more successful than anyone his age".

As he set off describing his income and his "trophy girlfriend" I realised that I considered nothing of what he was proud of to be "success".

So I am now driven to ask CFCers what they consider "successful" life to be. Rich? Big Family? Happy?

I imagine that "happiness", or for the more pretentious "enlightenment", would be the top choice but then there are different levels of "happiness" inspired by different things. So if you must put "happiness" at least elaborate upon it.

Cheers

so who won the apprentice in the end???

 

[Aramazd]

Success is the achievement of your goals, and deriving happiness from your achievements.

 

[MjM]

It's this crap poem I had to paraphase a few months ago.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

so who won the apprentice in the end???

Sir Alan had the choice between two girls.

One who had excellent sales experience and had helped raise her former company's turnover from £3million per year to £13 million. The other having worked her way up from being a checkout girl to owning her own business earning £100k per year at the age of 25.

He picked Michelle, the prettier one

 

[HawkeyeGS]

Success is defined by the person getting it. If for example your dream is to rich then you will have success when you are rich. If you dream to rid the world of poverty then you will be sucessful once no one is starving.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

Bah!

Big businessman with large company, a condo, a villa, a BMW, a Benz, a yatch, a trophy wife AND a mistress? Success.

Pretty similar to my definition as well plus a few more things.

 

[BCLG100]

Sir Alan had the choice between two girls.

One who had excellent sales experience and had helped raise her former company's turnover from £3million per year to £13 million. The other having worked her way up from being a checkout girl to owning her own business earning £100k per year at the age of 25.

He picked Michelle, the prettier one

i didnt like the other one but i felt michelle didn't really do anything the whole time she was there... at all.

 

[Ayatollah So]

Living literally and metaphorically "off the grid" rather than "caught in a web" or rat race if you will.

If you're off the grid, how did you post this

But seriously, point taken. As I like to say: if life is a race, where's the finish line?

 

[Narz]

If you're off the grid, how did you post this

I'm not off the grid. If I was though I'd post this from a library or steal a wireless signal from a nearby network.

But seriously, point taken. As I like to say: if life is a race, where's the finish line?

When you own everything advertised in your Sunday paper you've won.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Oh and, if you don't think Donald Trump is successful, all I've got to say to you is:

It was the English version so it was Sir Alan Sugar not Donald Trump. Secondly it was one of the contestants who made the comment, not the owner of the company. A contestant who didn't win by the way.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

i didnt like the other one but i felt michelle didn't really do anything the whole time she was there... at all.

Ture, but which one would you rather look at from 9 to 5?

 

[superisis]

Success is achieving the goals set for you by your parents.

 

[Lotus49]

Success is outperforming your contemporaries/rivals/associates.

You don't have to do it as best it can possibly be done... you just have to do it better than anyone else around, at the time.

Do that, and you are undeniably successful.

I consider the top 10% achievers of this category/subject to be included in the general group of 'the successful'.