Most Accomplishments Are Invisible

How shall we measure success? It isn’t popularity, money, or critical esteem. Success occurs in the privacy of the soul.

For some it manifests as imposter syndrome, the belief that there’s a basic level of expertise that pretty much everyone else has attained, but that you haven’t, and that you won’t be able to stop second-guessing yourself until you get there. It also arises, for many of us, in the feeling of not yet having cracked the code of intimate relationships

We’re constantly trying to get our arms around what it means to be successful. Success is always something we’re aiming to achieve at some point in the future, not something we feel we can experience in the moment. Success is never now. And we often aspire to attaining it without understanding what it means for us personally. Is it a dollar figure?

The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elud