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1.2.7 Happiness and Success Are Mutually Inclusive
ОглавлениеHappiness and success are interdependent; it is difficult to achieve real success without happiness. Success in life is subjective, but is no doubt predicated on the pursuit of your dreams – of what makes you happy. If the pursuit or achievement of success does not come with happiness, with a balance of what matters, then can we truly call it success?
If you must sacrifice happiness for success, then what is success?
Quality of life can be measured by various metrics, but chief among them is happiness as an indicator. If you work long hours to acquire wealth, and had previously defined that as success, then does that simple math equate to success? What if you cannot pursue anything other than the acquisition of wealth at the expense of sharing and experiencing the joy in life? How do we reconcile the interdependence of happiness and success?
Identification of success and being able to measure it, as described in a previous section, helps us to understand whether we have been successful if we have traded one for the other.