Comments on: Contemplation on Success http://www.journeyofsuccess.net/2008/07/contemplation-on-success Piggy's Blog Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: rob http://www.journeyofsuccess.net/2008/07/contemplation-on-success/comment-page-1#comment-5908 rob Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:36:21 +0000 http://www.piggysblog.com/2008/07/contemplation-on-success#comment-5908 I remember in the book 'Happier' by Tal Ben-Shahar, he wrote that happiness is the ultimate currency. The funny thing is that intuitively, what we all really want is to be happy, yet we do a lot of things that don't have much meaning and value to us, mostly due to peer pressure, and chasing after "success", the money+power version of it. A few years back, I had a theory about what success is. That those with the most time are the most successful, as time is the most finite resource in the world. If you have the free time to pursue things that are most meaningful to you, then you are successful. When you run out of time, or if you use up all your time on things that are inconsequential or unimportant, that is not success. I remember in the book ‘Happier’ by Tal Ben-Shahar, he wrote that happiness is the ultimate currency.

The funny thing is that intuitively, what we all really want is to be happy, yet we do a lot of things that don’t have much meaning and value to us, mostly due to peer pressure, and chasing after “success”, the money+power version of it.

A few years back, I had a theory about what success is. That those with the most time are the most successful, as time is the most finite resource in the world. If you have the free time to pursue things that are most meaningful to you, then you are successful. When you run out of time, or if you use up all your time on things that are inconsequential or unimportant, that is not success.

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