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In our societies we use the word "success" a lot.
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And we think we know just what it means: money, status, fame, and power.
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But take a look in the dictionary and things start to look, thankfully, a lot more complicated.
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Because success is, in truth, rather more neutral and less value-laden than we tend to assume.
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It just means doing anything well, excelling at something, and that might encompass a lot of different activities.
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Running 100 meters, for sure, selling your app for a lot of money, okay.
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But also stranger, less-heralded things like listening a lot, very attentively, to a child,
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or being extremely kind to strangers, or filling your mind with interesting ideas and associations,
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or knowing just when to put an arm around someone when it's too much for them.
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People who triumph here are also big success stories.
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No one can be successful at everything, whatever they tell us, it's almost impossible to succeed with a career and with a family,
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or with popularity and integrity, there are always sacrifices.
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It's great to be successful.
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It's even better to make sure you followed your own distinctive and, not necessarily, always obvious path to the success that can truly fulfill you.