True Meaning Of Success

7 min readNov 21, 2020

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In today’s life, everyone wishes to be successful but what is a success. The perspective of success varies from person to person. For the account, the people before us have a different viewpoint on success and the person after us will similarly have a different viewpoint on success.

Moreover, we try to compare the performance of different people to evaluate their success. But success is not something that you can copy from others. You have to make your own track to achieving success. Nowadays, people are obsessed with success because of the glamour and lifestyle of successful people.

Success is when a person is happy with what he is doing. It means that success is truly accomplished when a person is happy with his chosen path or career. When he/she is not easily bored and that he does not feel the pressure and output comes out effortlessly. It is when he/she has no regrets afterward. It’s when a person is happy and is exactly where he/she is supposed to be. Success is actually a feeling of fulfillment in imparting passion for others, a feeling of joy and happiness in sharing the things one knows to others realizing that they too will receive an advantage out of it. It’s a sense of fulfillment knowing that he helped someone or something improve like for example when teaching, one feels the sense of achievement when he/she is doing what they love, imparting his/she knowledge and understanding to the students, and at the same time seeing them learn new things, gaining new insights and seeing them excel in what they are doing. It is when one is following his/her heart’s desires and pursuing to do the things he loves.

Success is being able to go beyond a person’s own expectations. One should not be limited to what he/she already did but focuses on achieving what else they can. It is when one is open to continuous learning and improvement. This comes when one is staying humble and is willing to accept his/her mistakes and use it as his motivation and a stepping stone to improve oneself further. It is also to make sure not to commit the same mistakes for the second time around. It is when one enhances his skills and pushing to the limits. It is when one does not settle and stop but continue to try new things that would improve him to be better. Just keep on trying new experiences that even though one fails, he should treat failures as part of the process to achieve success. It is when the person accepts his own failures with open arms and makes those failures as inspiration and motivation to keep on trying and never giving up. Besides, success is also when a person gains courage and self-confidence.

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

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To become successful, one has to understand what is important in that instant, recognize and work on the weaknesses, take criticism, and hold on to the strengths. From a broader perspective Success defines the contentment, peace of mind, and sheer happiness that is achieved. One should remember that only perseverance can lead the path to success. Nobody has ever been successful overnight. Patience is yet another golden rule. Just convince your mind that you are strong enough to be successful, though not today, at least someday. Never be disheartened and frustrated if you lose. Trust in yourself and believe that you will reach there and you deserve to reach there. Your strength and weakness define the person you are, and the realization of it is rather important. Selfless dedication and hard work will definitely get you where you deserve to be.

We all know that being successful has its price and the people on the top can often be alone, because of the many sacrifices they had to make to get there. There are also countless examples of people who have achieved success professionally, but their health and social lives fail because they cannot control the stress that comes with managing that image of perfection that is expected of them.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Maybe we should stop looking at success as part of the control and make it part of what makes us genuine as human beings. What do I mean? If we start celebrating everyday people when they express themselves or make something that is fulfilling for them and makes other people grow we will support others to develop this perspective of their humanity and not concentrate on command and subordination. We should try to support the celebration of collective efforts that strive to enhance the human race as a whole and not adore individual examples as if they were the meaning of life.

The secret to success is not in money and fame, but in reaching that feeling of fulfillment when you know you have accomplished something that truly matters to you and other people around you. Dreaming big and then having it, it’s not impossible.

True Meaning Of Success

Written by sohan