“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Many people view success in the visual and material world because this is what society has embraced as success. The tangible comparisons are inevitable among all of us. We tend to size up our own "success" with regard what others have or have not versus our own have or have nots.
We look at the person with a large home, luxury car, fine clothing and jewelry and most people would say that that person is "successful". They have all of the outward appearances of success anyway. How did they get that way?
Unless they inherited it or won the Powerball, in which case they will blow it all anyway, those who are financially successful got there via progressive realization of a worthy ideal. It is their success in their progressive realization of a worthy ideal which then led them to a life of wealth and privilege not the other way around.
However, success does not always come with a large bank account.
To be continued...