The path to success is the dream of many, but is it worth going this path? Western sociologists (including the famous David Orr) argue that there is a substitution of concepts, and this planet does not need successful people.
Let's first try to figure out what people are called successful. As a rule, they include the rich from the stage of the stage and small oligarchs who have built personal financial empires. It is very difficult to imagine a successful teacher, builder, scientist, but it is precisely such people who build the foundation of our society and make the world around us a little more prosperous.
It turns out that success does not guarantee well-being? Indeed, the wealthy bathe in luxury and even make occasional charitable donations, but compared to the efforts of the billions of people not on Forbes lists, their good intentions are a drop in the world's oceans.
How can the pursuit of success turn out for you? In the first place, you are in danger of emotional burnout, and this is not surprising, because you chose tough competition instead of doing your job well and spending more time with your loved ones. Relatives and friends, in turn, move away from you, because they get tired of waiting for such a busy person to find time to relax together. While you are rapidly heading over your head to career heights, enticing bonuses and consumer paradise, loneliness will lie in wait for you, and with it - numerous nervous breakdowns.
There is a way out: score on success! Strive to make your daily life happy right now, and not someday later, when the salary is higher and the position is more prestigious. Take a look around: here are your role models, not in glossy magazines and fashion instagram! Just be a good person, and the successful ones will die out themselves.
