SUCCESS
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(0) COMPLICATE
(1) ACT
(2) EXTREME
(3) ASSOCIATE
(4) SUCCEED
(5) POSSIBILITY
(6) POPULAR
(7) NECESSITY
(8) TRUE
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In our societies we use “success” a lot, and we think we know just what it means: money; status; fame; and power. But take a look at the dictionary and things start to look, thankfully, a lot more (0)COMPLICATED because success is in truth rather more neutral and less value-laden than we tend to assume.
It just means doing anything well and excelling at something, and that might encompass a lot of (1) activities. Running a 100 metres, for sure. Selling your app for a lot of money, OK. But also stranger, less heralded things like listening a lot very attentively to a child or being (2) extremely kind to strangers, or filling your mind with interesting ideas or (3) associations, or knowing just when to put an arm around someone when it’s just too much for them. People who triumph here are also big success stories.
No-one can be (4) successful at everything. Whatever, they tell us, it’s almost (5) impossible to succeed with a career and with family, or with (6) popularity and integrity. There are always sacrifices. It’s good to be successful, it’s even better to make sure you’ve followed your own distinctive and not (7) necessarily always obvious path to the success that can (8) truly fulfil you.
