The cultural inheritance most men receive regarding success is showing its inadequacy. The men who achieve it most completely — who reach the income levels, the titles, the visible markers — report some of the highest rates of emptiness and quiet desperation.
The Alternative Definition
Success redefined: the degree to which your daily life is aligned with your deepest values. The degree to which you are becoming the person you most want to be. The contribution you're making to the people around you.
The question is not: am I successful by the inherited standard? It's: am I living in a way that I will be proud of?
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