I'm not asking about society nor about what it was or how some people measure. Just you. On a personal level. What do you think makes you successful in life.
well i think every person should make their own goals based on what they would want out of life. the problem is everyone learns from really young age from parents what they "should" be doing and distorts their life.
i set out to make money. its all i wanted. i dont want a family i dont want kids. i dont want to live in a house in some subberb. i dont want a 40hour a week job.
my goals were to be to create a life out of that. so i did. and i consider myself extremely successful.
however many people could look at my life and tell me im incomplete lol. its happened many times now. because they dont think that life is how normal people should be living.
the real trick to success is to get the hell out of the loop and create your own "success" goal. because the traditional one has failed every last person during the last 4 generations and playing a broken system will only slow you down.