Success And Happiness In Sara Maslow's Shooting Dad
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Success can be defined in many different ways, but it can never have a definite meaning. Success has a diverse meaning to people, and it may apply to their lives in distinctive ways. Most people define success as having a fancy car, a job that pays well, a big family, an enormous house. In other words most would define wealth as the standard of being a successful person. Success can be all these things, but they could all be taken away from a person in a heartbeat. If success is defined as wealth, success can disappear suddenly. Instead a better definition of true successfulness come’s from happiness, no matter what the source of ones happiness is.
Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, presented a pyramid, which includes the hierarchy …show more content…
This creates a very unfriendly atmosphere in their house and they start bickering at each other and gradually growing away from each other. As she grows up, she decides to become a better daughter and show some interest in her fathers’s hobbies. She decides to accept her father for who he is and makes an effort to do some of his activities. She goes with her father to set of the cannon that her father made with his own hands, and surprisingly she likes it. Making an effort in life to accept the facts and being happy with them is success, no matter what the source …show more content…
He says, “Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self- centeredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down.” What he is talking about is selfishness, being self-centered and putting one’s own needs in front of everyone else’s. Not only does selfishness makes one unhappy and miserable, but it can ruin some else’s day as well. Wallace explains that if we accept our own selfishness, we will realize other people matter too. Not being selfish ultimately increases our own happiness and therefore our
Success can be defined in many different ways, but it can never have a definite meaning. Success has a diverse meaning to people, and it may apply to their lives in distinctive ways. Most people define success as having a fancy car, a job that pays well, a big family, an enormous house. In other words most would define wealth as the standard of being a successful person. Success can be all these things, but they could all be taken away from a person in a heartbeat. If success is defined as wealth, success can disappear suddenly. Instead a better definition of true successfulness come’s from happiness, no matter what the source of ones happiness is.
Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, presented a pyramid, which includes the hierarchy …show more content…
This creates a very unfriendly atmosphere in their house and they start bickering at each other and gradually growing away from each other. As she grows up, she decides to become a better daughter and show some interest in her fathers’s hobbies. She decides to accept her father for who he is and makes an effort to do some of his activities. She goes with her father to set of the cannon that her father made with his own hands, and surprisingly she likes it. Making an effort in life to accept the facts and being happy with them is success, no matter what the source …show more content…
He says, “Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely talk about this sort of natural, basic self- centeredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down.” What he is talking about is selfishness, being self-centered and putting one’s own needs in front of everyone else’s. Not only does selfishness makes one unhappy and miserable, but it can ruin some else’s day as well. Wallace explains that if we accept our own selfishness, we will realize other people matter too. Not being selfish ultimately increases our own happiness and therefore our