The Road to Success
Google Image Contemporary society, seems to me, is obsessed with the idea of success. Financial firms say their products will help you achieve a “successful retirement.” Universities and business schools offer courses to achieve “successful graduates.” Political campaigns promise to produce "successful leaders." And luxury watches, vehicles and homes are signs of this success. People who aren’t particularly successful in these terms are “underachievers” or worse, “losers.” And society is always placing in front of us new goals for success, like the recent news of humanity’s first “trillionaire.” Who Asks Such a Question? But what does it really mean to be “successful?” (We “losers” are the only ones who would ask such a question.) I would say that more important than being successful financially or in business or with a skill or talent, is whether we’re successful as human beings – assuming agreement on what it means to be human. ...