How to Define Success on Your Own Terms
If you view material possessions as the overwhelming proof that someone is successful—maybe you’ve got it wrong.
The most successful people see acquiring material possessions as benefits of the labor bargain.
SIMILAR ARTICLES & IDEAS:
The Narrative Fallacy makes us to see events as stories, with logical chains of cause and effect. When it comes to success, do not fall for the ‘narrative’ fallacy’ and think that great people became successful due to what happened to them, and if we emulate that, we will achieve the same result.
We need to do something extraordinary and exceptional to achieve great success, and that makes any successful person an exception, someone who did what few others were willing to do. Instead of googling for success, find what you want to do to change the world!
It's a very real but often misunderstood struggle. The key thing to realize is that, in most cases, the fear is about the consequences of success, not the success itself.
This fear likely has very strong and very old origins in a person’s past.