Success- A Journey!

 

 

Success has many parameters, indicators and followers. When people choose to be successful others follow. I started writing this series to explore if I can look at success differently. During this particular journey, I went through a lot of inner debate. Mostly about loser talk. I was in dilemma when on one hand I genuinely believed my theory of success talk made sense, I wasn't sure it is enough. Is the change required? Therefore today I thought of revisiting my thought process. I started with the LIFO principle. 

My final blog was about seeing success as the ability to inspire. The reason to look at this was that some people go through their lives without even realizing the impact they have on their surroundings. Rashmi is a batchmate of mine from my school. I don’t think our paths crossed ever at that time. Today she could be the front runner for the class president. That is her impact. She holds a group of some 100 odd people from across the world together. That is an inspiring success for me.

'What after success' was something that I had dabbled with personally? Success if it’s defined as an achieving a set goal, then I was successful early on in my career. I kept pushing myself to learn new things In life to give me a sense of purpose, but I kept living from one day to another and after a while lost interest. That is why I had started writing to achieve that sense of perseverance and to some extent to avoid desperation. What did help me was the ability to meet new people and form connections. That has forever been my weakest point and my strongest feat.

I talk about my weakest point in the context of a blog the following success but I think the roots were sown in the blog about antonym. Even though in this blog I spoke about learning to be introduced as the antonym of success, I myself go on to use an unsuccessful attempt in my following blog. Writing that seemed hollow to me but at that moment I did not know how to change the verbatim. It might take time but is worth the effort. 

Success stereotypes were about the roles of established mindset or sociological framework in the achievement of success. Often while growing up I heard that players from African background had the better physical strength to compete in an athletic event. This would give them a distinct advantage, to begin with. Some, however, are not so advantageous like girls are bad drivers or women have advantages over men in creative arts etc. These stereotypes not only condition an individual to prepare for their success, but it also works as a programming mechanism for the entire society and when a society starts believing in stereotypes, they more often than not convert it into reality.  

I have during this week received many a comments on what people thought success was, how they felt it was more pertinent to go for measurable stuff growing up and something more indeterminate like happiness or peace. Some also felt that unless success is measured, it will not make sense. Some agreed to the change and others resisted. Whatever the case was success always is a success if one sees it as such.

Success is a by-product of persistent effort. We need to be persistent and be patience in that pursuit. Sometimes in an effect to achieve numero uno, we end up cutting corners. Success is often collaborative and we need to see it in that light. 

I wish everyone who is reading this blog, a journey full of learnings and lifetime full of successes.