Success Through The Ages

October 27th 2008 12:00 am

Here’s an email forward I recently got:

At age 4 success is . . .not peeing in your pants.
At age 12 success is . . .having friends.
At age 17 success is . . .Having a driver’s license.
At age 35 success is . . .having money.
At age 50 success is . . .having money.
At age 70 success is . . .having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . . .having friends.
At age 80 success is . . .not peeing in your pants.

The joke above is funny but sad.  At each age it points to external measures. Success should be measured internally- by how satisfied you are (hopefully you don’t have a low bar).

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Posted by Heshy under Principles | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Success Through The Ages”

  1. Martin Wildam responded on 27 Oct 2008 at 8:04 am #

    Do you know the three signs of getting old?

    1. You forget numbers
    2. You forget names
    3. …. – I think I forgot the third.

    You are right, satisfaction and happiness are the measures for success.

  2. Heshy responded on 27 Oct 2008 at 8:36 am #

    cute.

    Reminds me of another counting joke (only programmers will get it):
    There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don’t.

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