Success, idiosyncratic perspective

Jawad Arshad Khan
3 min readFeb 16, 2021

Deducing “Success”, Let’s start with the classical scholarly approach of defining the term first
If we go by the definition from google, “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.”
Yes, that indeed serves quite a general purpose well but as long as the perspective is subjective.
When we analyze different perspectives or perhaps the different dimensions to it, defining it becomes complex.
So I would like to seize the liberty of presenting my perspective to readers.
“success” is defined by the individual, his individual aim and individual purpose, sometimes it could be collective as well.
I would like to induce the dimension of time to this, when we look at basic google definition of “success” and watch the words carefully we understand that the definition is based on a finite time, this forms a good basis for my induction of time dimension to it.
With respect to time our definition of “success” goes on changing with the process of defining, redefining altering, updating and upgrading. of course it’s an infinite process therefore I can say that “success” is quantitative but the “pursuit of success” is infinite but then there’s always a possible finite to an infinity but that’s up to your intellect, that is it really an infinity to you. Being successful and feeling successful are two different things it’s a whole different topic to write a lengthy blog on, let’s keep that for some later time.
Now let’s picturize success dimension and time dimension let’s take it on axial planes (x-y planes) y-success x-time and now let’s imagine an individual’s life in x-y frame.
Let’s start from t=0.now we see that we were born with success, I would say that it was phenomenal success because of the probability of you as sperm worm hitting the egg is least.

Now let’s forward the time what we see now our first walk was a success, the exams, competitions, your proposal, your job, your promotion, all of them, if I go on doing this we find lot of successful points, but we can see that the pursuit never ends, isn’t it sometimes frustrating that with all of my hard work the success achieved by me satisfies me only for a (dt) period of time on my axis and then the pursuit of new success continues… but what if, instead we have one huge massive success which would satisfies us for the eternity, it sounds great right but it would be a huge disaster, I would leave that for self-perspective. Now for example imagine a scenario you eagerly want a Lamborghini you work for it and you get it and what next, you have a new desire. These desires are infinite, for some people it could be a great infinite but if you’re lucky enough and your intellect of rational analysis serves you well you can deduce success to the definite at the infinite, when you ask yourself the soul philosophical questions like what’s the purpose of life, it’s the most important question I would say on the contrary small successes and the infinite pursuit is very important for the balanced continuity but also being aware of purpose impacts our long-term stability. And after getting to know answers there’s another infinite pursuit waiting for you.

Now let’s superimpose timescales of people who are entrepreneurs, pre historic people, times of monarchs, prophets and so on.. if we carry out specific deductions of success on their time scales we inculcate a great information of the do’s and don’ts, we say that there’s no success without failure so failure is necessary for success what if we could learn from them instead of taking the long route of failures we could skip that part instead. The graph also gives us lot of information about what success’s to be chosen, you could also weight your success and analyze was it really worth the effort.
There you have the deduced success I hope we plan for worthy successes efficiently and wish you the ultimate success.

— The Thought Reaper

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