Comments on: Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Success Part Two

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:06:39 +0000

For those who love Kennedy books, check out “The Last Brother” by Joe McGinniss. It’s a profile of Teddy with a lot of background on the whole family.

By: cindie geddes

cindie geddes — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:39 +0000

I’ve got two examples of the subjectiveness of “success” that I always think of. 1) My husband became a state Assemblyman some years back and everyone suddenly loved him. He was a nobody, came out of nowhere and beat someone who’d been in office for nearly 2 decades. Of course that was the year our state had a major tax meltdown and raised taxes for the first time in 10 years. My husband voted for some of those taxes. He was beat the following term by a man dumb as a box of broken marbles but who knew how to say “No new taxes.” When everyone loved my husband I figured it was because he was finally in a position for people to see what a smart, ethical man he is. I was stunned how fast “friends” disappeared. My husband wasn’t (did I mention he’s smart?).

The other is Arthur Conan-Doyle who so badly wanted to write “important” historical novels that he killed off Sherlock Holmes, but the public wouldn’t have it.

I know there are others, but those are the “success” stories that stick close to me.

For me, “success” is simply no longer needing a definition for success (from outside or in). It is simple contentedness. How to get there? Yeah, I don’t have that figured out yet.

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:32:28 +0000

Aw, Kris, ya big tease! Giving me three points and then only discussing two of them . . .

I know, I know . . . “cliffhangers.”

Just a thought experiment – one could apply your discussion of perspective to the Eunice Shriver example in this context: perhaps she did not consider HERSELF a success. She certainly fit your definition (and mine) – but maybe there was something else she really wanted, and did not have . . . you just never know.