Meaning vs Success
Success is often measured through visible outcomes.
Examples include:
- income
- promotions
- awards
- qualifications
- influence
- business growth
- recognition
Meaning is more personal.
It asks whether the work connects to something the individual considers worthwhile.
This explains why someone can have an impressive career and still feel dissatisfied.
Their career may be producing success without producing the kind of meaning they want.
The opposite can also happen.
Someone may perform modest work without public recognition while finding tremendous meaning in the people they help.
Neither success nor meaning should automatically be dismissed.
A strong career can pursue:
achievement + meaningful contribution
rather than assuming that one automatically produces the other.
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