Do you want to be successful? Do you know what that means to you? John Wooden talks about success on my latest TED highlight, seen below. Some people want to aspire to more than success in the traditional sense. Some people want to achieve power, prestige, material wealth, or recognition.
John talks about how his father taught him never to try to be better than someone else, but rather to learn from others. His own definition of success is to make the effort to do the best that you are capable of, and to be satisfied with that. We may succeed in other’s eyes or our own, or we may fail, but we can be comfortable in knowing that we did our best and we learned a lot, and we can apply that new knowledge to our next attempt, or our next project or goal. We should try not to get too wrapped up in our definitions of success, and instead focus on putting everything we’ve got into whatever we do!
