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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Sample Comments

pjmlp • Jun 29, 2023 • View on HN

The "success" of others prove otherwise.

mbg721 • May 19, 2022 • View on HN

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.

loco5niner • Dec 9, 2020 • View on HN

Depends on how you define 'succeed'.

bpyne • Jul 17, 2014 • View on HN

Success is highly subjective. Perhaps you mean different?

knightinblue • Apr 29, 2009 • View on HN

What exactly constitutes 'success' tho?

OJFord • Jan 20, 2020 • View on HN

What's 'success' here?

PUSH_AX • Sep 23, 2023 • View on HN

Ah ok, some success is ok, some is not.

riemannzeta • Aug 29, 2015 • View on HN

what do you mean by "more successful"?

fredgrott • May 17, 2016 • View on HN

its not how many unsuccessful ones, its how big of success is the successful one..

yompers888 • Aug 4, 2016 • View on HN

We might have to define success