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the most disappointing destination, because the chase was always the good part
means The achievement of a goal, aim, or desired outcome — getting the thing you set out to get.
from From Latin successus, the noun form of succedere, 'to come up, follow after, go well.' Break it down: sub- ('under, up from below') plus cedere ('to go, move'). So at its root, success literally means 'a coming-up' or 'a following-after' — the next thing that happens. Tellingly, early English use could mean any result, good OR bad (you could have 'good success' or 'ill success'); only later did the word quietly assume that the outcome must be a happy one. The same cedere gives us 'proceed,' 'succeed,' and 'cede.'
- survivorship bias
- we study winners, ignore identical losers who failed
- hedonic treadmill
- achievements reset to baseline happiness within months
- definition drift
- each summit reveals a taller mountain
- luck factor
- timing and birthplace outweigh most personal grit
- impostor syndrome
- peaks high achievers, not the underqualified
elon musk — built tesla into $1 trillion market cap company and founded spacex, now world's richest person
oprah winfrey — rose from poverty to build $2.5 billion net worth empire through media and philanthropy
steve jobs — transformed apple from near-bankruptcy in 1997 to $2 trillion market cap before his death in 2011
serena williams — won 23 grand slam tennis titles, the most in open era history