Just pick up a line from the film ‘Avengers: Endgame’:
‘Everyone fails at who they’re supposed to be. A measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are.’
But the problem is it takes time to find out who you are supposed to be. No guarantee that you will have a right answer. Given life is short, is it more reasonable to abandon altogether the concept of measuring success?
Suggested reading:
Marslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
殷海光《人生的意義》