177. What Does Success Look Like?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What matters more: meeting our own ambitions, or winning fame and glory? What’s it like to earn a gold medal at the Olympics? And why didn’t Mike’s grandfather get a watch?

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0:00.0	Do you know who I'm having dinner with tonight?
0:03.6	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:05.6	I'm Mike Mann and you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:09.3	Today on the show, what does it mean to be successful?
0:14.0	No one ever feels like they made it.
0:16.0	There's no such thing as like,
0:18.0	oh, I reached the pinnacle. Angela, today we have a really interesting question from Steve Carlson.
0:38.0	He says in episode 171 Angela said quote gritty people are more successful, unquote.
0:44.4	Okay, now I'm all yours.
0:45.8	Go ahead.
0:46.8	So he continues, how is Angela defining success?
0:49.2	And then says, my wife and I often discuss
0:51.6	how to define success in life, are we successful?
0:54.8	Would we say that our friends are successful?
0:57.0	How do we know if our adult kids are successful?
0:59.8	There don't seem to be many ways to measure success due to the ambiguity of the defining criteria.
1:04.4	However, this is where Steve goes to ChatGPT and ask ChatGPT.
1:10.3	That's probably what I would do.
1:11.2	Exactly. He asked ChatGPT what are the variables for success and was given these eight variables
1:18.5	Achievement of goals. Okay, wait I need to get a pen to write these down. Okay, go.
1:24.0	and then we'll determine whether you agree.
1:26.0	Achievement of goals, happiness and fulfillment, financial stability,
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