Being a good person, taking care of your loved ones, being trustworthy, positive and honest, don’t require much and makes even a simple existence an enjoyable one.

Life, as imperfect and unfair it may seem, is pretty good. Life has plenty of beautiful moments if our definition of success isn’t about accumulation of wealth or a drive towards more power, but to live a healthy, happy and fulfilling life.

• Success means different things to different people and is not always about bigger cars or the number of followers.
• To achieve something extraordinary, you have to do something that no other people (or maybe just a few) are doing or willing to do.
• Therefore, step-by-step systems on "how to be successful" are not going to help you achieve spectacular success.

Having ‘breakout’ success is not an intentional goal.

Giving your life meaning and purpose, while being creatively engaged with the problems of the now, is an emotionally healthy definition of success.

Most scientific breakthroughs have been from people who questioned the status quo and assumptions which were the norm. The ‘outsiders’ with no fixed plan asked the right questions and did something that seemed small and unexpected, in the present moment.

• Very few of us went through childhood without getting any emotional scars.
• Be it home or school, we suffered many problems when our impressionable mind wasn’t mature enough to handle them the way we can as an adult.
• Our worldview becomes skewed, and we start to build upon the mutated version of the world around us, messing up with our lives.
• Success by itself is not about money or fame or power, but our upbringing programs us to think about success in a certain way.