What Does It Really Mean To Be Successful?

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Today, everybody wants to be successful. Although, what does it truly mean to be successful? The dictionary might try to say that success is the attainment of popularity or profit or it is a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity. However, everybody likes to determine what success means to them. But, success, being brought down to its basic roots, will ultimately decide what it really is. The word, “Success” originated back to latin. The latin word was succedere, which meant to come close after. That word brought forth the english word, “Succeed,” which can also mean to come after, such as, “The son succeeded his father as king.” The latin word, succedere eventually turned into successus. Then, when they combined the latin word, successus, and the english word, succeed, they resulted with the term, success. …show more content…

Success has only one antonym: failure. People are hardly ever recognized for their failures, rather, they are known for their success. However, most people experience a lot of failure before they actually succeed.
The world measures success by some kind of monetary value. For example, Donald Trump would be considered successful, because of his many riches from his business. Brad Pitt is called successful because of his wealth accumulated from his acting career. The world also considers success to be an advancement of a person’s popularity. Therefore, although Kim Kardashian has done relatively nothing in her life, she still remains successful because of her

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