Success Is Not What You Gain but What You Leave Behind
Our definition of success is falling to pieces
Our definition of success is falling to pieces.
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
― Pericles
My grandfather didn’t achieve success as a doctor. That’s why I admired him so much.
He didn’t meet the measure of success for today’s society: getting or achieving wealth, fame or power.
My grandfather neither made millions as an ophthalmologist, nor he became number one in his discipline. But he was respected and revered by his patients, family, and friends.
My grandfather was successful according to his own standards.
That’s the most important lesson he taught me. Everything I achieved as a person or as professional was driven by my own measure of success. Not someone else’s.
If you don’t know where you want to get, it doesn’t matter which way you take. Or which advice you follow for that matter. That’s the problem with success “how-to listicle.” They…
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