You know you're successful when...

[SagaLore]

When you have an island.
And a harem.

I'm going to have to agree with shorty on this one.

 

[Squisher]

you're content with just who you are - no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

If I were to look back at a lifetime with the feeling that I had fell far short of my potential and had many regrets, but then came to the rationalized that I couldn't change the past and maybe if I had achieved all my goals that other good parts of my life might have fell by the wayside, would I then be a success in my own mind because I reduced my standards?

What I'm trying to say is success a function of our own mental state and has nothing to do with achievement? Can a homeless person finding his breakfast in a dumpster feel like a success as long as he has contentment?

 

[clamum]

You become monster.

Hahahaha, this! :awe:

 

[SunnyD]

You're dead.

 

[amdhunter]

when you drive an M3

FTFY. We all know M3's are where it's at bro.

 

[7window]

when i am member of anandtech

 

[Saint Nick]

No, that is just what virgins say.

Lmfao....yep.

Hahahahahahahaha

 

[tboo]

you become an astronaut. Nothing beats an astronaut!

 

[Mixolydian]

You spend all your time doing hookers and blow.

 

[amdhunter]

You spend all your time doing hookers and blow.

Charlie Sheen?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

2 chicks at the same time, man.

 

[amdhunter]

you can afford a nice car and not have to make excuses as to why buying a nice car is a terrible financial idea.

Not afford but purchase outright.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If I were to look back at a lifetime with the feeling that I had fell far short of my potential and had many regrets, but then came to the rationalized that I couldn't change the past and maybe if I had achieved all my goals that other good parts of my life might have fell by the wayside, would I then be a success in my own mind because I reduced my standards?

What I'm trying to say is success a function of our own mental state and has nothing to do with achievement? Can a homeless person finding his breakfast in a dumpster feel like a success as long as he has contentment?

Why put it in question form? Either a person has been thoroughly indoctrinated by their society, to believe external validation, and materialistic obsessions, are the definition of success, or they have not. I think that U.K. show How Television ruined your life, is brilliant. It deals with the subject matter using (often scathing) humor.

 

[ichy]

I'll consider myself successful when I never have to drive in to the office in the morning again.

 

[highland145]

If I were to look back at a lifetime with the feeling that I had fell far short of my potential and had many regrets, but then came to the rationalized that I couldn't change the past and maybe if I had achieved all my goals that other good parts of my life might have fell by the wayside, would I then be a success in my own mind because I reduced my standards?

What I'm trying to say is success a function of our own mental state and has nothing to do with achievement? Can a homeless person finding his breakfast in a dumpster feel like a success as long as he has contentment?

Success and contentment aren't the same thing. If you're happy with your decision to change your standards then that's fine. If you're not happy with the decision, you're not a success in your own mind and won't be content. There are a lot of "world view" successful people that aren't content and visa versa.

For some, finding a meal is a success but they're not content. Others are content because they found a meal. If we're no comparing ourselves to the Jones', then it's all in our minds.

 

[Wyndru]

Red leather pants and a kangaroo...when you can pull off red leather pants and walk through the mall with a kangaroo then you know you're successful.

/breuer

 

[shortylickens]

Success is when you accomplish your goals. Happiness is not a goal, its a way of life. Like the opposite of happiness: religion.

:awe:

 

[amdhunter]

My personal version of success would be if I can go out and buy a Lamborghini's worth of iPods and give them all away in OT and not even flinch.

 

[MetalMat]

The pregnancy test result is negative

 

[DAPUNISHER]

then it's all in our minds.

Precisely. You can allow others to define it for you. Or, alternatively, you can choose to define it yourself. Many people adhere to the one defined by the advertising they have been inundated with almost since birth. This provides a framework for measurement which is almost entirely material and tangible. Unfortunately, it is also the cause for most of the thoughts and feelings of inadequacy, failure, and self dissatisfaction that assail that very same group of people.

Some assert it is the primary cause for the financial hardships so many millions are experiencing. Lured by the promise that McMansions, "status symbol" cars, and designer accoutrements = success. That shiny tackle is so good, they spend their entire lives chasing it. But if or when they do catch it, there is always another shinier one to catch.

 

[her209]

when you do a 45-min AMA and get 64 months of RG.

 

[highland145]

Precisely. You can allow others to define it for you. Or, alternatively, you can choose to define it yourself. Many people adhere to the one defined by the advertising they have been inundated with almost since birth. This provides a framework for measurement which is almost entirely material and tangible. Unfortunately, it is also the cause for most of the thoughts and feelings of inadequacy, failure, and self dissatisfaction that assail that very same group of people.

Some assert it is the primary cause for the financial hardships so many millions are experiencing. Lured by the promise that McMansions, "status symbol" cars, and designer accoutrements = success. That shiny tackle is so good, they spend their entire lives chasing it. But if or when they do catch it, there is always another shinier one to catch.

QFT..

 

[ch33zw1z]

The pregnancy test result is negative

 

[Atomic Playboy]

You fail to fail.

 

[SagaLore]

2 chicks at the same time, man.

1 cup?