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Answered: The World’s Biggest Questions on Success
The most asked questions online, answered with scientific research and the most effective ideas from the best.
These are the most commonly asked questions about success in the English-speaking world according to search engines. I’ll attempt to answer them using research, psychology and ideas from some great minds.
By answering all these questions, hopefully we can use it to all become just a little more successful.
First the questions about what success actually is
“What is success?” isn’t a commonly asked question, probably because everyone has a fairly good picture in their head. But there were a few questions from other angles.
Can success be measured?
Yes, and you get to choose the metric. It’s easiest to measure like-for-like. A major league professional sports player is obviously more successful than a club amateur. A million-selling author is clearly more successful than a self-publisher who’s sold twenty copies.
Success can be external or internal. The examples above are external. If the million-seller author hated…
