Success, Failure and "Happiness"
Every one of us has our own definition of success and that definition is both fluid and situation specific. My concepts of success have been entirely different to that of my wives and that of yours. Irrelevant of your definition of success ,it is generally superficially clear when we have achieved a success. More often than not, on achieving “success” we are catapulted into a cognitive storm where we are confronted with our success and how that stacks up to our true ambitions, desires and priorities. Add to this cognitive storm the ever ticking clock of mortality and you have all the elements of a classic mid-life crisis. Having experienced all of the above I have come to the startling realisation (yes, I have to learn everything the hard way) that any personal definition of success is largely flawed if It is not educated by complete, absolute and abject failure. The experience of failure, severe and absolute failure creates the only valid benchmark from which we can gauge success
