If you want to be great in character, stop comparing yourself to people of low character.

Think about who is the most virtuous person I know. And what would they do in this situation? The people with the most integrity. You want to be radical. You don't want to be average. You don't want to be ordinary. If you want to become the greatest version of you and you want to be truly successful in the top 1% in the world, being in the top 1% of success in the world is not being the top 1% in your money or your social media following or anything else.

Being in the top 1% of success is knowing you're the top 1% in character that you do what no one else will do.

Welcome to the Growth Lab podcast where we uncover the science behind how to grow yourself, your health, your wealth, and take your career and relationships to a new level.

I'm your host, Dr. Josh Axe. I'm the founder of ancient nutrition, Dr.ax.com, and leaders.com, also a graduate of Johns Hopkins University

and leadership. And today we're going to talk about how to define success. And this is such a

key topic because all of us want to get to the end of our life and say we ran a good race,

my life was successful, and know that you didn't waste anything.

And so we're going to go through how most people define success and then how you should define

success today. And one thing that will happen from this is for many of you, this might be a sigh of

relief. You may feel like, well, now I don't have to keep keeping up with the Joneses, and I don't

have to feel like I need to have all the fame and the fortune in the world to be worthy or to matter,

but I am going to teach you how you can matter and live a life of significance on today's episode.

And we'll go through the science and research. We'll go through the ancient principles and a whole

lot more on today's episode.

You know, I think the first time that I really

had a greater understanding of what success truly was

was at my grandfather's funeral.

You know, growing up, I was very, very close to my grandfather.

And I was blessed to have a grandfather.

I know some people may not have been able

to be fortunate enough to have a relationship with certain parents or grandparents, but I had a really close relationship with mine. And I was at my grandfather's funeral. And there was a man just a few rows over from me. And we had a moment at the funeral. And was so many people came it was a really a special time

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