Re:How to Be Successful
by avip on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:49PM
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We can also measure people's height, yet we usually don't use it as a metric for success in life (you also don't see that many how to be tall posts).
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The only difference is, the metrics I listed are all metrics of success in life (according to different viewpoints). The personal feeling of satisfaction is a metric from the viewpoint of an individualist. The impact on society is a metric from the viewpoint of a socialist (or possibly a historian). The number of offspring is reproductive success, which is all what counts from the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist. (And of course I completely forgot to account for the viewpoint of a theologian.)
I am not sure these viewpoints are reconcilable.
As opposed to financial success.