WHAT IS SUCCESS?
the most common denominator of success is money. almost everyone speaks that success meansd more money. more wealth. more riches. in fact. money does not determine success but if you are successful money chases you. take the exmaple of any successful industrialist. film actor. musician or sports person. today ambanis. Amitabh Bachchan. Lata Mangeshkar. Sachin Tendulkar are successful and. therefore. they are rich Money is really a by-product of success and not the other way around.
the most widely accepted and popular defintion of success is what Erl Nightingale suggests "success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal." in this definition "progressive realisation" and "worthy goal" are the two important pillars of success. progressive realisation presumes that anything achieced abruptly is not success. indirectly. we can that success is hidden behind long hard work. perhaps. the author precludes from the definition of success anything achieved eithout paying a proper price.
the other salient feature of the definition is that the goal should be worthy. even if a goal is worthy but the achievement of the goal takes place through dishonest and corrupt practices. can it be termed as success? Will you term a student successful. who qualifies an examination with distinction but gets it through cheating or copying? Will you consider a man successful who a masses huge wealth and property but acquires them by expliitation of labourers or by avoiding payment of taxes? Will you consider an athlete successful who wins a gold medal but does it after taking drugd?
In all these three cases the goals have been worthy. A distinction in the examination. acquiring wealth or gold medal. But to my mind. it could not be termed as success.They are acquiring their glories by resorting to corrupt and dishonest means. Such success is to be rebuked. such success is to be condemned. such success is to be disapproced. Under no circumstances are these achievements to be magnified but should be downright excluded from the purview of success.
Every civilized society evolves certain norms of conduct and all our performances must pass through the acid test such norms. the realization of weaith and property or a gold medal or a distinction may ne a worthy goal but it must be earned within the ambit of rules of conduct prescribed by the society.
the most widely accepted and popular defintion of success is what Erl Nightingale suggests "success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal." in this definition "progressive realisation" and "worthy goal" are the two important pillars of success. progressive realisation presumes that anything achieced abruptly is not success. indirectly. we can that success is hidden behind long hard work. perhaps. the author precludes from the definition of success anything achieved eithout paying a proper price.
the other salient feature of the definition is that the goal should be worthy. even if a goal is worthy but the achievement of the goal takes place through dishonest and corrupt practices. can it be termed as success? Will you term a student successful. who qualifies an examination with distinction but gets it through cheating or copying? Will you consider a man successful who a masses huge wealth and property but acquires them by expliitation of labourers or by avoiding payment of taxes? Will you consider an athlete successful who wins a gold medal but does it after taking drugd?
In all these three cases the goals have been worthy. A distinction in the examination. acquiring wealth or gold medal. But to my mind. it could not be termed as success.They are acquiring their glories by resorting to corrupt and dishonest means. Such success is to be rebuked. such success is to be condemned. such success is to be disapproced. Under no circumstances are these achievements to be magnified but should be downright excluded from the purview of success.
Every civilized society evolves certain norms of conduct and all our performances must pass through the acid test such norms. the realization of weaith and property or a gold medal or a distinction may ne a worthy goal but it must be earned within the ambit of rules of conduct prescribed by the society.
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