Three types of people

[TaoTe]

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Someone just read "The Idiots Guide to Taoism"

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The world is won by those who let it go. By letting it all go, it all gets done.

But, if you try and try, then the world is beyond the winning.

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Hey brother, take it wherever you can get it.

[Piemaster]

This looks like a really bad motivational speech to me. One of those ones that I sleep through when we get them at work.

You cannot possibly define success in such vanilla terms. Not only are there many different measures of success, but each of them are completely arbitrary in measure. The word 'success' can only be applied to a particular task or goal, not to a life.

Maybe you could define a success a someone who consistently meets their own goals. In that case many of the most brilliant and wealthy people in the world would technically be failures, while the perennial underachievers who never reach for a goal not clearly within their grasp would qualify as the biggest successes.

[meow_meow]

The world can be divided into two types of people: Those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who don't.

[Blackdirt12]

Isn't this straight out of Ken Warren Teaches Winning in Life ?

[imported_anacardo]

The world is divided into four types of people, each with four subtypes.

[USGrant]

read a book

[revots33]

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The meaning of "success" can be argued for days on end, but that is irrelavent to this discussion.

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No it isn't.

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Most of the people in this catergory do enough to get by in life, alot of them have at least a small amount of ability or talent that is enough to make them close to successful

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Define "close to successful".

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The reason these people dont reach that next level as they prefer to be in the norm

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Define "that next level".

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This person will not take losing, in fact they hate it, they will do everything to get ahead

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will not take losing to who?

It's pretty obvious that you are defining success as = lots of $$. It is the yuppie ideal of success, that thankfully went out of fashion back in the 1980s. There are many people who feel very successful without lots of money. Is a "Mr. Normal" who has a modest income and a loving wife and family, not a success in your book?

I'd define success as contentment. If you are content in your life, and with your choices in life, then you do not need to compare yourself to anyone else's definition of "success".

[mosdef]

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I'd define success as contentment. If you are content in your life, and with your choices in life, then you do not need to compare yourself to anyone else's definition of "success".

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i think you can do better than this (actually, i think that i've done better than this [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]). Define success as setting goals and achieving them. if your goal is contentment, then your definition fits into mine.

[mosdef]

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read a book

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why? he's already got life totally figured out, and has been kind enough to condense it down to one page and share with us. you should be thankful, not critical.

[warlockjd]

I was always taught that the three types of people are those that can count and those that can't