What does success mean to you?
“Success in a more vivid perspective”
To truly understand success, we must understand what the society thinks of it to this day.Modern society understands success as an accomplishment of a certain aim or a goal.It is different for everyone, and the meaning of success and level of success simply depends on your own perspective.Sometimes even the most simplest things in life might be an accomplishment for people.So relatively, how we rate successes all comes down to our attitude and mindset. As a person, when we attain success, our loved ones triumph and motivate us to go further.
For Steve Dawson, a 51 year old journalist. Success came through for Mr Dawson only when he realised what his true passion was. To him, success changes with age. When he was younger, success was to be employed by the best in the business. Once established, success was to be brilliant every day and be regarded personally as the best in the business. As one gets older, providing for oneself and ones loved ones becomes the major priority. Success is therefore far more easily measured in dollars and cents. On the whole then, success is probably best measured by duration or dedication in an industry that lives only for the moment. From Mr Dawson, we learn that success came through hard work and striving to be the greatest because in reality there is competition all over the world.Steve Dawson raised forward than everyone else because he had chosen to live life by the rules and that decision proved successful to this day as he is working for ESPN and is now in his 7th year of presenting Formula 1 on star sports.
Similarly for Chetan Bhagat, an Indian author, motivational speaker and television personality who is now looked upon by the world and considered to be one of the most successful people of the modern time.In 2008, the New York Times cited Mr Bhagat as “the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history”. As said by Chetan, “ it is time to face the real world,Success for him today is having the freedom to do whatever he wants, and his writing to have the impact that he desires. Success is a great feeling and one of the sources of happiness, especially when it comes after hard work. Usually success does take hard work and it only comes after that. Chetan Bhagat stated that his strategy to get where he is now was to reinvent by changing the game. He says that the best people to survive in the world are the ones who are adaptive and not the ones who are strongest and smartest. “It is time to face the real world, even if it harder and painful. I rather fly and crash than snuggle and sleep.” is one of Chetan Bhagat’s famous quotes where he implies that that without learning the real life situations, it is simply not possible to get anywhere in life which brings us back to the point of surviving and adapting to the reality.When he started off into writing, his goal was not to an author known worldwide but to inspire and bring change to the lives of billion Indians. He believes every human should have ambitious goals and all of us.
And lastly, we introduce Bill gates who is considered to be one of the most successful men of our modern age. He is a businessman, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft. He is the second richest person in the world just below Jeff Bezos as of October 2017.For Bill Gates, he felt that success came different for everyone.According to him, success is defined by two main factors. Making a difference and a change to the world as well as taking care of those closest to you and cherishing them for life is success for Bill Gates.Being Successful does not mean you have to be rich, making sure there are people who are around you in your everyday life who love and care about you.“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world ,if you do so, you are insulting yourself.“, this was said by Bill Gates to help us learn and realise that if we continue to compare ourselves with others, it is not possible to get to a better stage in life.Another quote said by Bill Gates “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor, its your mistake.” “We have to be able to adapt to any situation and work towards certain goals in that environment which we have placed or immersed ourselves in.
These three stories can show us that everyone’s definitions of success is different and we should not be influenced by what society sets its standards to be. What was common about them? They all chose to live their world with their passions.
