Success is just an image with no substance || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: Sir, according to me, ‘success’ has no true definition, it varies from person to person. For a kid, riding a bicycle can be a form of success and for an adult getting a good job can denote success.

So, can we ever say that success has a concrete meaning? What according to you is ‘success’?

Speaker: Firstly, it is a wonderful thing that you have not fallen prey to the notion that success does have a particular definition. Most of us believe that success really has a fixed definition. And what is that definition we subscribe to? What do we say? We say I am successful if…

Listener 1: I have money.

Speaker : Right. What else?

Listener 2:We say, ‘I am successful if I have reputation.’

Speaker : Good! What else?