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    Success Success is always controversial when it comes to people defining it. Success has so many different definitions and perspectives from people and you may or may not agree with them. In order to become successful, change must occur. The successful people you hear about did not just magically get there, they tried hard and failed but the thing that made them successful is getting back up and trying harder the next time until they finally are happy with the things they have accomplished.…

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    team to a record-breaking number of wins and NCAA Championships. In 2001, he gave a TedTalk focused on his experiences as a teacher and a coach and how they have changed his definition of success. During this TedTalk Wooden gave his own definition of success and talked about the events that led to his forming of this new definition. Wooden also quoted different poems and verses that he felt accurately described what he had come to know about life and what it means to be successful. The comments…

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    The word success to me means that there’s an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Success is things you achieve that you want. In order for me to do that, I do all my assignments and study for tests and achieve my goals. When I do that action, it has now been considered successful. When people enjoy their work, and if it gives them an opportunity to spend time with their family and have a balanced life, they’d consider themselves successful because it happens and it works. Success is when you…

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    The way I define success depends on what kind of success someone is talking about. To define carrer success, I would say it would be having a job you are actually interested in and making enough money to provide for yourself. But if I were to define educational success, I would define it as having high grades, understanding what you're learning, and being able to put aside time for studying or homework. I believe the word success has a different meaning for everyone, and that it all depends on…

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    the concept of success is a source of confusion. As a people, we American's greatly prize success. We are taught to celebrate and admire the ones who get the highest grades, the ones voted most attractive or most likely to succeed. But while we often rejoice in the success of people far removed from ourselves;people who work in another profession, live in another community, or are endowed with a talent that we do not especially want for ourselves - we tend to regret the success of people close…

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    improvement. Without others, they wouldn’t be able to do it though, friends are a vital element to achievement and progression. These two things put together can describe success. Success, the power to the future, is not being the best at what anyone does, but rather doing the best and meeting new people along the way. In sports, success comes through attempting to be the best and making friends with the teammates. Swimming up an age category when I was 12 and 14 shows that the ones that try to…

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    What is success? Most people would probably determine success by wealth or reputation, but I think that that is completely wrong. Success takes time, and with that should come hard work, dedication, and happiness to determine if they really are. One trait we lack today is hard work. Nowadays people would rather take the short and simple way out of things instead of doing the work once required. Yes, they are completing what they wanted to do, but that doesn’t make them successful in my eyes. To…

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    Success is not possible without some failure to get us on the right direction. Success is what makes us who we are and shows the hardwork and dedication a person had to get there. Success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. Success is never given to one, it must be earned by one's mindset and how far they are willing to go. Success is what more and more people lack because they don't know how to come back after failure. Some people are able to have enough strength to pick…

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    What is success? Success to me is when a person is passionate and working hard to achieve something that they always dreamt of becoming or doing. Success is a hard thing to come by you can’t just wish to be successful you have to work for it. People often think that they can’t be successful because they think they don’t have what it takes. People who want to be successful know that it doesn’t happen overnight. Every decision you make in your life will effect what happens to you when you’re older…

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    Definition of Success How would you define success? Is it money, power, or fame? In Cambridge dictionaries online success is “the achieving of desired results, or someone or something that achieves positive results”. In today’s mainstream success has been misinterpret as how much money someone has and if he’s living in a big house, with all the latest technology. Success is not just about making money, it about being best person you can be, the true indicator of success is not what is…

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