Success needs U
Success is a tricky subject; it relies so heavily on perspective, relativity and usually, a financial motive. My question is this; why has the discourse surrounding success, in other words our common and shared understanding of success, been almost solely associated with money and capitalistic gain when it’s arguable that these things don’t satisfy our most desired needs and surely this is the true definition of success? happiness? and self-fulfillment? Things that truly equate to ultimate ‘success’. Perhaps it suits those who control our ‘success’ for our moral compasses to be angled on their direction? Food for thought.
Regardless, I believe success to be an idiosyncratic feature of human nature, I just don’t agree with the fact it’s label is often used to manipulate and disguise are own instincts, you should strive for the success that brings you the most happiness, whether that be the pursuit of love, finance or something entirely unique, don’t conform.
Freud talks of the conscious being broken into three parts, the ego, superego and id. The latter is our biological instinct, the codes of our mind that we’re born with, uncontrollable desires only anchored and directed by the more surfaced ego and superego, whose contents is influenced by environmental factors. This is relatable because, you can visualise success as the id, it’s within you and although it seems out of reach, only you can access it via what the world throws at your.
I think our obsession with fame and celebrity status further deepens the general public’s disconnection with success, but those that we look up to, the successful, simply applied their superego and ego with the right combination to unlock the grandest of padlocks, success. This isn’t a fairytale-land only accessible to the elite and fortunate, it’s open to you; if you’re willing to accept it. Perspective is key, the biggest picture possible is inarguable, we’re all human, death will decide everything, for all of us, with that in mind don’t pedestal the rest of society, it’s your world too.
