What is success?

How do you define a successful man? Is he wealthy, happy, goal oriented or perhaps, something entirely different?

Perhaps, there is no success, only temporary victories in the short struggle of life.

 

A successful man is a happy man.

 

Of course there is no success. The idea of success only perpetuates the human need for permanency. The constant need for "happiness" is the worst facet of this.

 

A true measure of success is one's level of comfort with themselves.

 

i think so too, but...
i think of success more as having an ambition that keeps driving you forward, but you are happy with it...

and also doing what you set out to do.
i think most of my success is satisfaction with short-term projects.
for me success is in immediate goals, but i don't think of the future easily or often...!
for some people success is a long term thing.

 

It's subjective. If you are doing what you want to be doing, happy with your lot in life, I consider that success.

 

success is failure turned insideout

 

Success is eliminating all goals and becoming totally divorced from the influence of history and society so you become your own unique man/woman, as you were meant to be

 

I agree, I like that definition a lot.

 

a good job
a nice car
a suit
i am powerful
like a jedi
i hear women like that
the weekly joga class
it's good for the heart
wake up each morning
clean teeth
brush hair just right
buy expensive cologne
and orange juice
i like the brand cereal
it is not the same thing
my suit is italian silk
i speak five languages
would you like me to show you??
i'm in a band
for the kids
i don't want kids
can i buy you a drink?
i love this bar
it's sophisticated like me
someday you will have to come around to my place
so i can show you my fish tank

or is it so we can fuck??? :eggnog:

 

A balanced mind in an unbalanced world, OR is it a balanced world to understand for the unbalanced mind in ya'?

To be successful in an unbalanced World is to be like Krishnamurtri. He looked rather healthy to me as well.


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I conquered the world to find they had nothing successful in It for ME.

 

Indeed, this is partly why
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'A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do' - Bob Dylan

 

He was an optimist, wasn't he? He knew of success which the balanced World had in store. Understanding was more difficult for the Optimism.

Aaaa...ah. An unbalanced mind cannot understand a balanced world. But someone else did. That is pessimism.

 

success is being able ta look yourself in the eye an like whats lookin back at ya!

 

If you want my personal opinion.

Success is achieving a goal. No goal, no success. Success is more of an abstract feeling. A word that people use on you to make you feel less than you are, so you become more productive.

Set the expectations low for yourself. No room for disappointment that way.

 

Doing something you intended to do.

 

Suck sess.

 

my definition of success would be if at my death I owed no one anything

that means money/work/etc......but more importantly I don't want to owe any apologies.

 

success is being hated by assholes! ha! ha!