Success....fun thing to describe
Defintion is listed as;
–noun
1. The favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.
2. The attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
3. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.
4. The gaining of fame or prosperity.
5. The achievement of one's aim or goal.
That's from Dictionary.com / Wiktionary.org if anyone is interested.
From Wikipedia.org;
Success may mean:
[list][*]a level of social status[*]achievement of an objective/goal[*]the opposite of failure[/list]It's also apparently a few places in America, some Ships, a couple of Banks, and a few other things, but guessing not talking about them.
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So success would be you achieving what you set to do, getting lots of money or fame, seems it boils down to one of those according to definitions. Or the opposite of failure...i like that concept for it.
But you want an abstract view of it...hmm..
So going from the concept i like, success is the opposite of failure, so as long as you dont fail to do something, you succeed? ....or perhaps that is too simple, i'm not sure.
Success, by those definitions, indicates a destination, without aiming to achieve or do something, then you cannot succeed at it, cos, well, it doesnt exist TO succeed at....
So if you represent it as an arrow...then sure, you can do that, start where you make the plan/idea/whatever and the destination where you manage it, or succeed in it. The destination would be what the success is, not the journey. You remove the direction, you remove, or change what you aim to achieve, and therefore what, for you, success is constituting in this moment.
Change is not success...unless you wanted that change, a general change is nothing, it you want a change and it happens, you succeed because the change happened...
As an e.g. ; Going after someone to go out with them, and then going out with them, that'd be a success, because you achieved something...but merely asking them could be considered success as well, as you successfully asked them, even though you failed to get a positive responce from the question.....So it's relative, the destination can change as you go along...
eh...think i was going to put something else, but i got distracted, cant recall it now.