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how to define succes

What Counts as Success?

Explain: Eudaimonic (flourishing): Success = living well and realizing your huma...

Eudaimonic (Flourishing) — what Aristotle means

Explain: Hedonic/welfare: Success = maximizing pleasure or well‑being and minimi...

Hedonic/Welfare Account of Success

Explain: Virtue/character: Success = cultivating moral and intellectual virtues ...

Success as Virtue — What It Means in Virtue Ethics

Explain: Existential/authenticity: Success = choosing freely, taking responsibil...

Existential/Authentic Success — What It Means

Explain: Social/relational: Success = contributing to others and sustaining mean...

The Social/Relational Conception of Success

Explain: Name core values (e.g., autonomy, connection, mastery, contribution).

How to Name Your Core Values

Explain: Translate each value into specific outcomes or capacities (what would i...

Turning a Value into a Concrete Outcome — A Practical Guide

Explain: Choose measurable indicators and time frames (SMART where helpful).

Making Success Trackable — Measurable Indicators, Time Frames, and SMART

Explain: Weigh trade‑offs explicitly (which values can be sacrificed, which are ...

How to Weigh Value Trade‑Offs — Practical and Philosophical Guide

Explain: Revisit and revise periodically; life circumstances change what’s reaso...

Why and How to Revisit Your Definition of Success

Explain: Adopting others’ metrics (status, wealth) without reflection.

Why Adopting Others’ Metrics Without Reflection Is Problematic

Explain: Narrow short‑term wins that harm long‑term flourishing.

How “Narrow Short‑Term Wins That Harm Long‑Term Flourishing” Works

Explain: Equating success only with external recognition.

Why “Success” ≠ Only External Recognition

Explain: “Success = sustained personal growth and contributing to others’ well‑b...

Success as Growth plus Contribution

Explain: “Success = meeting my chosen goals while living by my core values.”

Success as Goals + Values — What That Means

Explain: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics — a concise explanation

Explain: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.

John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism — a concise explanation

Explain: Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl — Man’s Search for Meaning: Key ideas

Explain: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism.

Sartre’s Existentialism Is a Humanism — a concise explanation

Explain: Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (capability approach).

Sen’s Capability Approach — Development as Freedom