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Perhaps a more valuable question: how many people sit down, hopefully starting early in life, to define what success is to them? And how many people keep reevaluating that definition?

If being successful means getting what you want, what people seem to want is relatedness, competence and autonomy, whatever that translates to for each person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory#Basic...



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