The Failure of Success: Americans' Ambiguous History of Ambition
- ISBN-10
- 152755211X
- ISBN-13
- 9781527552111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08
- Author
- Lawrence R. Samuel
Description
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.
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- 2020-06-04
- 156 pages
- Ebook
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing