John Wooden’s Definition of Success
If you ask 10 different people to define success, you will get 10 different answers. From this perspective, success is a lot like beauty as it’s in the eye of the beholder.
With that said, one of my favorite definitions of success comes from the greatest basketball coach and arguably overall coach of all time, John Wooden. Wooden’s definition of success is as follows:
True success is attained only through the satisfaction of knowing you did everything within the limits of your ability to become the very best that you are capable of being.
Success is not perfection. You can never attain perfection as I understand it. Nevertheless, it is the goal.
Success is giving 100 percent of your effort, body, mind, and soul to the struggle. That you can attain. That is success.