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The True Metric Of Success
What truly matters to be successful, and yet we ignore it.
What does it take for someone to be a truly successful individual?
Is it fame?
Is it mass fortune?
Is it having a lot of subscribers and followers?
Is it having a large and successful business?
Travelling the world?
Bill Gates wrote an article reflecting on the work he did last year and one of the largest takeaways from his reflection is that age provides a great deal of perspective.
When he was in his early 20s he was focusing all of his energy into building Microsoft into the giant it is today. He poured all of his life into it to the point that he wrote this:
“Did I devote enough time to my family? Did I learn enough new things? Did I develop new friendships and deepen old ones? These would have been laughable to me when I was 25, but as I get older, they are much more meaningful.”
Here we have one of the wealthiest men in the world talking about some of the most simple things that even the poor have:
Connections. Relationships.
And yet time and again, we have moved further and further away from it.
