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Success is often measured in term of how much money somebody has earned. Do you think the wealth is a good measure of success? How else could we measure whether somebody is successful or not?

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Success
 is complicated philosophical concept
that is
 both individually and culturally determined. In
this
modren
belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages
modern
 age, it is often equated to the amount of
money
one
 has accumulated over the course of
lifetime
Suggestion
a lifetime
.
Although
this
 is an easy
way
 to quantify what is
otherwise
 intangible, it is overly simplified.
This
 essay will discuss why wealth is a good measurement of
success but
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success, but
 it is not without its limitation, and will
also
 illustrate another
way
 it can be measured, namely education levels. A person's personal wealth is certainly
one
way
 to
measure
 how
successful he
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successful, he
 or she has been in
life
. Typically,
money
 represents what sort of
life
 someone has lived and what sort of profession they had held. Doctors
for instance
.
earn
Suggestion
Earn
 relatively large amount of
money
 and they can certainly be considered successful
for
Suggestion
since
 they help people to live well and healthy. While it is not
completely reliable
Suggestion
a completely reliable way
way
 to
measure
success
 -
one
 indeed could have stolen their fortune,
for instance
 - it is certainly generally representative of
success
. Another
way
 to
measure
 an individual's achievements in
life
 would be to
measure
 their educational attainments.
knowledge
Suggestion
Knowledge
 is a sure
way
 to show whether someone has paid attention to
life
, and the accumulation of knowledge, not unlike
money
, is a
way
 of determining how successful he or she has been.
For example
, I feel like I have achieved a lot in
life
 because I have studied hard and learned a lot. While it is difficult to
measure
, a person's intellect would certainly be used as a
way
 to determine achievement in
life
. The nature of
success
 is multifaceted.
This
 essay argued that
money
 is a straightforward
way
 to
measure
success
, though it is not particularly accurate. It
also
 proposed that a person's education would be a
way
 to determine
success
,
however
, it is difficult to quantify. Overall,
success
 should probably be measured in many different ways to paint a clearer picture of
one
's
life
 achievements.
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