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Theme of Zoom Meeting: Success

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Questions

1. What is your definition of success?

2. Can you be happy without considering yourself a success?

3. Describe the person you consider the most successful you have ever known?

4. What character traits made him/her a success?

5. When you were a child, was there anyone who seemed to point you toward success? How did she/he influence you in that direction?

6. What habits lead to success? To failure?

7. What U.S. President do you consider the most successful? Why?

8. What is the greatest measure of success? Wealth? Power? Contentment?

9. Can you be taught how to succeed? If “yes”, how can you be taught?

10. How might you continue to feel you are reaching success even in your retirement years? Or are you successful achieving days over?

11. Stress and success sound like close relatives. How about pain and gain? Do you see any special connection between these sound alike words?

12. If you had a teenage grandchild who asked you for advice on how to be successful, what might be your response? Do you think it’s likely that a teenager would ask Grandpa/Grandma such a question? Why or why not?

13. What’s your reaction to this statement written by Rachel Kable? You might think that success will make you happy, but it turns out the opposite is also true; positive emotions can cause success.

14. Do most cultures share the same idea of success? Is the American idea of success very different from the Chinese version?

15. Make a quick sketch of success. Then, if you’re willing, share it with us.

16. Was there something new and important you feel you learned about success in our discussion today? What criteria might you use to judge if our discussion was a success – or a failure?

Quotations

1. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -- Albert Einstein

2. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -- David Brinkley

3. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -- Winston Churchill

4. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” -- Francis Chan

5. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” -- David Brinkley

6. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” -- Bruce Lee

7. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -- Thomas Edison

8. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” --Albert Schweitzer

9. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” -- John Wooden

10. "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." -- Madison Alcedo

11. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."-- Henry David Thoreau

12. Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -- Mike Ditka

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