Defining Success
This cluster consists of comments debating the meaning, subjectivity, and metrics of 'success', often challenging claims about successful people, ventures, or strategies by questioning what constitutes success.
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The "success" of others prove otherwise.
There are plenty of people known for being successful who were previously not-very-successful at something else. You hear about the thing that worked.
Depends on how you define 'succeed'.
Success is highly subjective. Perhaps you mean different?
What exactly constitutes 'success' tho?
What's 'success' here?
Ah ok, some success is ok, some is not.
what do you mean by "more successful"?
its not how many unsuccessful ones, its how big of success is the successful one..
We might have to define success