We have increasingly shifted our definitions of success from the immaterial to the material, from the interior to the exterior, from the private to the public. And in that shift, we have incurred a peculiar and perilous blindness to the moral and humanistic dimensions of success — to how being a good human being and a good member of a community, of a society, of humanity itself factors into being a successful individual.
Author: Maria Popova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
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