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Summary

The article challenges the conventional portrayal of success, advocating for a personalized definition centered on happiness, contentment, and positive impact on others.

Abstract

The article "Try to Change The Pseudo Coatings of Success" presents a thought-provoking perspective on redefining success. It argues that the traditional metrics of success, such as wealth, fame, and luxury, often lead to a misguided understanding of what it truly means to be successful. Instead, the author suggests that success should be measured by the emotional fulfillment it brings, the ability to do what one loves, and the happiness shared with others. The narrative includes a personal anecdote of a mentor who embodied this reimagined concept of success through his passion for teaching and inspiring students. The article emphasizes that success is not a one-size-fits-all template but a unique journey for each individual, where happiness and satisfaction are the ultimate goals, rather than external achievements.

Opinions

  • Success should be redefined to focus on personal happiness and emotional growth rather than material wealth and fame.
  • The traditional definition of success can be misleading, as it often ignores the importance of humility, mental well-being, and the joy of helping others.
  • A truly successful life is one that is lived in accordance with one's passions and interests, and in a way that positively affects those around us.
  • The pursuit of a template-driven success can lead to a lack of humbleness, dominating behavior, and an unclear understanding of one's own decisions.

Try to Change The Pseudo Coatings of Success.

Ideas to change the entire meaning of success from how it is being portrayed to us.

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First of all, people get misled by the way the meaning of success is being portrayed to them. That doesn’t mean that the people who succeeded in the past have got the wisdom of how one’s success should be stream-lined or well-engineered.

98% of all who have got on to the top have different kinds of accidental incidents which involve many physical toils and mental traumatic experiences, of course, risky moments which put on an unexpected reverse gear to their personal life at first but ended up with something weirdly great that no one could reach that level of thing.

So this slaps on our faces that the so-called success and the way it is being constructed which the world is showing us is not the same at all instants of time.

It is a beautiful journey of emotions that carries us through several modes of life.

It must make us humble and mature in such a way that it gives happiness with what we have instead of feeling for what we don’t have in our span of gifted life.

Happiness completes the meaning of living :

The definition of a successful journey of one’s life can be redefined by the one who deserves the way he/she wanted to choose his/her happiest path of surviving.

I have certain questions that always encircle within my head which uncertainly forced me to write this article and allowed me to ask you, people, too. Why are we not able to change the way success or its peak is seen?

Why is success always related to translucent stuff like money, fame, luxurious life only? but not the other way around.

Fortunately, some people across the world have been an example to answer “yes, we can” and also lived up to the same. Many of them, who didn’t like the bright fame of light but they expressed their ways of succeeding rather than the template meaning of success.

I got the chance to speak and ask about this to a handful of such people who came up with the answers about what real success is.

Their answers made me feel like I have never heard before from anyone and it excited me a lot to strive a lot more. In that whole list, I will tell you a short story of such a person who came across in my life. I got a person who used to be my mentor during my nervous tension-filled exam times.

He was appointed for me as a multi-subject handler who was skilled to teach all subjects for me to make me understand everything in my book.

One day, I got mentally oppressed with a lack of confidence to face my fears towards the nearing crunchy exams. At that time he started to make me feel comfortable by giving me some motivational tit-bits so that I could feel better.

Then he started explaining to me what success is in reality and how we should see it. His perspective of one’s success was much more different instead of the template success formulas and its graph of illusional portray.

He said that “ Doing things which we like, actions that make our soul yearn for, offering happiness for others is the real success of one’s gifted life” “Now as a mentor, I like to motivate students generally, so what I like, I do great and in return, I turn around to be successful and I have the satisfaction that I have succeeded, where I seek happiness” the man said.

I can still remember that his words motivated me a lot and made me realize that one’s success journey in his entire life is based on how much he/she earned the profit of happiness by doing what he/she likes to do, how much he/she partnered it with his/her surroundings, how much he/she tried to accept, analyze, correct his/her mistakes and uncertain shortcomings.

The one who does things for his/her happiness, the sake of other happiness will be always flooded with loads of wisdom and it improves the satisfaction of living this life as a human being. The happiness of one is highly subjected to copyrights.

Success template- A pseudo satisfactory approach towards life :

In my point of view, the projection of template success in our society tells us to run behind excess money, fame, luxurious life which changes people’s minds as a character without humbleness, a dominating behavior or influence over others, an unclear understanding of their decisions.

Hence it will not be a permanent key to open the gateway of successful journeys in our life. It’s an unstable idea to be inside and follow the success template of how many of us have understood.

Instead, try to fetch happiness out of the work you do, compete hard with you of the previous day so that comparisons fade away, strive hard to position your personality which would help the needy and seek soul satisfaction out of it.

Have no expectations for the work you do after it gets done. Don’t try to win life instead try to win happiness out of life. Try to pick at least one positive point from the struggles and hurdles you undergo.

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Different perceptions for success, but a single noble by-product :

I don’t want my readers to follow and accept these transparent opinions about redefining success because it again becomes one form of a template as we saw before about it. The true way to find the real meaning of success begins when we individually experiment and try to find it out from our experiences and teachings of life.

Each one of us can have a unique definition for success and achievements but I think that any perception of success should bring you a complete sense of happiness and wholehearted satisfaction which completes you as a whole.

Happiness must be the single noble by-product of success and others should be secondary.

Be happy and choose your path to make others happy.

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