@humanearl, i love this. Success is actually a very subjective term, but a lot of needless suffering is rooted in the misconceptions about success.
The problem is that there are son many perspectives, so many definitions of success that it is not easy to encapsulate the idea in few lines or words. We all hear and talk about it, dream, think and wonder about it, work for it. Through our childhood and adulthood we learn and are told about various ideas of success by our parents, teachers, friends and others around us. Everyone has their own agenda. and idea of who and what should we be. We seek it, we find it, and then lose it again. We always are following some dreams or illusions and are never satisfied.
There are millions of books (including so called best sellers) telling you what is success and how to achieve it.
But the more strategies these so called advisers of success ask us to follow, the more miseries there are. If you follow the typical, beaten path to success, you will be shocked to know that more you achieve, the more frustrated your life becomes.
The problem is that we are mostly brainwashed about the meaning of success. Many rich and famous people are always complaining that they feel a void inside and don’t know what to do. Therefore, in the absence of a true concept of success both achievers and losers are one and the same thing.
The brainwashing is real