How do you define success?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>How do you define success? Is it fame, fortune, family, or other?</p>

<p>To me success if achieving my personal goals to reach my potential. Although I would be considered average compared to elite, maintaining a 3.5 and cutting down my 28:00 5K down each month closer to a 21:00 5K are some areas I find success for "myself"</p>

<p>Some friends argue with me that I'm too academic and athletic centered. One friend says GPA doesn't determine intelligence, but then again I believe IQ can't really be changed, but GPA can, by hard work and endurance.</p>

<p>Any other opinions?</p>

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<p>Success- overcoming failure</p>

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<p>I want the money. The money and the cars, the cars and the clothes…and the hoes.</p>

<p>I just wanna be, I just wanna be successful.</p>

<p>Drake’s definition is good enough for me.</p>

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<p>^^ LOL.</p>

<p>hmm… i think success, truthfully, is that gushy/butterfly i-feel-so-proud-of-myself-can’t-stop-smiling-even-if-i-wanted-to-why-are-all-of-my-teeth-showing feeling you get in your stomach that you get after you’ve done something well/good/accomplished something. no matter how big or small.</p>

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<p>enough money to do whatever you want to do, or do whatever you want to do w/o much money if you can figure out a way.</p>

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<p>Happiness in what you do.</p>

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<p>Money is the ultimate incentive :)</p>

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<p>It’s my dream to flip through my grandchildren’s textbooks one day and find a blurb on my accomplishments.</p>

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<p>success is accomplishing one’s goals, whatever they may be.</p>

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<p>Were you laughing at my post?</p>

<p>I was actually serious lol</p>

<p>After all, how can one truly succeed without learning from some form of failure?</p>

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<p>Just remember that money can’t get you everything. You cannot buy good health or love, etc. To me success is obtaining what I want. Sure money is part of it but you don’t need to make millions to live a happy life. What’s money if you can’t use it to share experiences and memories with friends/family?</p>

<p>A famous reggae singer once said to his son as he laid dying, “Money can’t buy life.” - Bob Marley</p>

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<p>With money you can do everything you just mentioned</p>

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<p>SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one’s fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, “John A. Joyce.”</p>

<p>The bard who would prosper must carry a book,
Do his thinking in prose and wear
A crimson cravat, a far-away look
And a head of hexameter hair.
Be thin in your thought and your body’ll be fat;
If you wear your hair long you needn’t your hat.</p>

<p>Yes, I’m not original, but his dictionary is brilliant.</p>

<p>Whenever I’m feeling sad, reading it brightens my day.</p>

<p>Finally a guy that shares my same sense of humour.</p>

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<p>^^Isn’t that sorta contradicting to what I just said? There are definitely things you cannot obtain just by being rich.</p>

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<p>Are you guys serious ?Do you really think you cannot buy love with money ?Go to Vegas…</p>

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<p>Your examples of “unobtainable” things in terms of wealth are pretty bad.</p>

<p>Health should be blatantly obvious, “love” isn’t even a question in current society, and I’d assume being able to go anywhere and do anything would produce pretty good “memories”</p>

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<p>^^Exactly … even though sometimes you cannot recover from an illness, don`t you think you will have better chances if you are rich ?</p>

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<p>i don’t think you can buy love with money, but w/o decent money you most likely (with very rare exceptions) won’t have a good love afaire. it’s one of thouse if A then B, but if B not necessarily A type of thing.</p>

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<p>What I meant is that those memories are meaningless unless you have people to share it with. Many rich people do end up being arrogant and high-strung, therefore closing themselves off from the rest of society. Perhaps some people like it but I personally don’t enjoy the thought of spending the rest of my life in solitude. Sure you could say that if you’re rich guys/girls will want to be with you. But if someone is relying on money/materialism to form relationships, then they’ve basically turned to prostitution. </p>

<p>I am not saying that money isn’t important because it is.</p>

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<p>Success=being happy…so there are many ways to go about that, and it’s different for everyone. I personally don’t really see making a ****load of money as ensuring happiness…though it would allow more travel and good food…haha…but HAPPINESS=SUCCESS</p>