Success Is A Perception| Here Is Mine
Many people have given their different thoughts about what success is. They might have only spoken from their point of view and would be judged to be right. However, success is measured with achievement of goals. From the sociologist point of view, success is measured through the social stratification table. This in itself is the only way to define what success could mean. It would therefore be that one man's success is another man's failure. That is to say that success can be subjective and vary from person to person, as it is based on individual aspirations, values and circumstances.
A graduate whose father was a carpenter and had only a primary school education could be seen as successful in the realms of education.
Aside from personal achievements and financial accomplishments, success can be seen when a person has good health, positive relationship, happiness, personal fulfilment and a sense of purpose.
I will therefore define success as a continuous journey of growth, learning and overcoming challenges to reach one's full potential and create a meaningful and satisfying life.
Visible Factors That Can Be Used To Measure Success
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." — Michelangelo
You fully define success to a lay man, one must say that success cannot be determined only by external factors. Inner values, personal growth and the ability to overcome life's challenges are equally important aspects of success that may not always be visible to others. Let's see some of the
Financial stability
Accomplishment
Reputation and Influence
Life satisfaction
Leadership and impact
Confidence and charisma
Invisible Traits of Success
What you see is invisible to others. We inhabit a parallel world of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others? George Monbiot
From the foregoing quote, you will see that success is not seen, it can also be invisible. Some of the invisible traits of success are as follows.
Mindset
Resilience
Emotional intelligence
Networking and relationship
Adaptability
Effective communication
Perseverance
Time management
Work ethic
Continuous learning
We can therefore come to a premise to agree that success is not just about climbing or reaching the peak of our career. Success can also be seen in starting a career. Many people who started a career are more successful already at the beginning than they realised.
It is rather unfortunate that many individuals do not know it. They feel that gathering wealth and belongings are the only yardstick for defining success. Some of these people even go down to inflict themselves with pain. Some could become devastated because they did not meet up with the time frame for submitting a task assigned to them.
The success of a journey though can be said to be in its conclusion, but in actual sense, It is in the starting point.
I absolutely agree with you @mrenglish, success can not only be seen from the external point. One can be successful in ways that people cannot see. That not withstanding, the world would only judge by what they can see. It's a pity though, but that's just reality.
Thank you for understanding my perspective.
See you around.
You are much welcome friend
Our world today makes it look like success is all about how much you have which is very wrong.
Money is not the only way to measure success. There are many rich but unsuccessful people.
Success can be in any form.to different people.
Thanks, dearly for understanding this. There are different standpoint to success.
This is a very interesting post
I see that you said success is just about achieving your goals but you also said it’s unfortunate people measure success with wealth
What if for them, wealth was their goals and they’ve achieved it.
If so , they are believe they have the right to call themselves successful.
Yep. They have. The wrong perspective is that many people don't even have life goals. They just want to live. To such, people who have attained a particular level of wealth could be seen as successful which is not always the case.