Task 6 - The Definition of Success

The writer Ralph Waldo Emerson has an easy definition of the word “success”, summed up in nine points, which all are achievable if you try.

How would you define success?

His first definition is “to laugh much”. Very achievable if you ask me.

If you live a good life, surrounded with friends and family that you care about, and that care about

you too, laughter comes as a natural reaction to fun. Is it fun to have success?

Is laughter a natural reaction to success?

His second definition is “to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children”.

Are you immediately successful if a little child gives you their love and affection?

I ask these questions because I want you to think.

Read over his points, and make up your own definition, and meaning. 

The writer has an easy definition of success. He means that if you manage to achieve these

nine points he mentioned, you have succeeded in life, and you have succeeded in the

relationships you have. I think that many of his points can, combined with the definition of

happiness, and the fact that you have done something of interest, be the definition of success.    

Of course, everyone should have, his or her, own opinion about the definitions, but this is a good guideline.