What is Success?
Do you know someone who seems to have everything put together? Joyful, confident, they seem to always be a step ahead of everyone around them, the epitome of mainstream success? Or are they stressed having second thoughts about the choices they made and unsure about their meaning in life? These people chased what they thought the definition of success was. The issue with chasing what the world says success looks like is the fact that success is malleable. Success not only differs between people but what success looks like to you can change daily as wildly different situations arise. Success means so many different things to so many people and is influenced by how you were raised. The morals we were taught, the views we
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While money can make things much easier through buying conveniences and comfort, one needs much more than superficial luxuries to live a higher quality, well balanced life. These people see money as making life easier but not better money cannot get you everything you desire. For example, money cannot make you wise and knowledgeable it can buy you the opportunity to learn from some great minds but over everything else it is your willingness to study and to work hard that imparts wisdom onto yourself. These people see success more as finding joy in life may be in more unconventional ways, some drop everything to go explore the world seeing new sights and doing some incredible feats. Success for this group is based around being rich in experiences rather than money and fame, they live all over the world, some in vans, some in tents, some in small or even large communities but their desire for adventure is what connects this group. This site is where I pitch my tent, but that is what success means to me now it will always change and I may end up changing to a different group. Some people are wise and brave enough to follow Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view of success which he shared in “What is