Mike Row's Definition Of Success?

Success is solely shown through the mind of the person, based on their values and what they’ve been taught to be “successful”. Success takes multiple different forms because multiple individuals have different interpretations of what success looks like from their perspective. A “successful” person is seen as someone who is making a lot of money at a high-end job who is completely confident within themselves, while others are seen as not so successful doing a job such as making coffee grounds for a living but in their own minds they are successful. Success in is in the eye of the beholder, either based on their wealth and social status of their job or solely determined by the happiness they feel of themselves.
Elizabeth Gilbert gave her definition of success by four definitions, but within her definitions was the word job. She believed that a job was solely based on money, its only purpose was money no happiness was involved. Then she describes the word career as; “Something that you build over the years with energy, passion, and commitment…. Your career is a relationship with the world.” (Gilbert) Its something you should …show more content…
I found that Mike Row had the most credible and believable definition of success due to his many different perspectives on success itself and not just the money aspect of success but also the happiness. Gilbert focused too much on money and I found her limitations of knowledge were to extreme, Gladwell talked just about practice makes perfect and how it takes a certain amount of time to achieve something which back in his time I believe to be credible but now in this new generation it lacks a sense of what it’s like to be in a job now. Although In any definition of success it is based on your values and background if Gilbert wanted the wealth aspect and Rowe wanted the happiness aspect then that is success to that individual