The Definition Of Success In Shakespeare's The Present

We all want to be successful people and everyone has his own definition of success. Some people focus on their own career without attention of other’s opinion, while some people regard wealth as the standard of success and put themselves into great pressure and sorrow. In my perspective, success is to obtain what you want. For example, if you get a job promotion in the company, you are successful even there are many people who are at higher position in the company. In the book The Present, the author indicates that success is to become who you are capable of being, and to make progress toward worthwhile goals. The author is right, the definition of success is subjective, we all have our own goals to achieve, so success is do your best on what you should do. To compare yourself to others does not make sense since we all have different life experience and background, and there

It is hard to let the past go I have not learned something from the past. Learning from the past is not to put myself back into the painful situation but what is learned from the past will I improve the present life. Lots of people avoid looking at the past, because they do not want to be troubled by it. However, not looking at the past is not a way to forget the past but actually escaping the past. In addition, one cannot forget the past if one learns a little or nothing from the past. Then, how to learn from the past? One should focus three questions to teach oneself what one can learn from the past. The first question is what happened in the past? The second question is what did I learn from it? The third question is what can I do differently now? One needs to learn from the past, since when the same situation arises, one can do differently and enjoy a happier and more successful