The approach to success~

Everyone at one point of time, if not all the time, has thought about it. Wealth, achievement, succes. We've seen others achieve it, we go through theories and advices and case studies- lots of case studies, to find the secret of success.

What i wonder is what did they go through?

Maybe our approach to success is not entirely correct. Maybe our methods of teaching it isn't really on the right track either. Maybe the problem with what we do is the fact that we're not really trying to achieve it in our own way, but to replicate the success of others.

I don't think someone like Bill Gates found his success by following in the footsteps of another software supertycoon. Simply because there weren't any before him. Even now for that matter.

Warren Buffet kinda created whatever it is he's doing. Many who followed got their share of wealth from following him. They can't quite be as sucessful as him since they can't be the one who created what was already there. Even if they did manage to get more money than him, that success would still be Buffets'.

It's not really about the money is it?
"Wanna be successful? Do what he's doing and earn what he's earning."
-not quite.

Bill Gate's achievement would not be the monetary value held by his assets. It would be more on how he changed the course of humanity. The money is just something there so that people would take notice, and begin to understand what he's achieved. Take the money away, he would still be the guy that changed humanity, but no one would give a shit.

Maybe that's where we're seeing it wrong. We don't really want to be successful or achieve something great, we just want a lot of money. That's what was observed, that's what was understood and also taught.

So and so created this system/structure/world. If you follow it right, you can make lotsa money from it. What if you don't want to follow the system? What if you want to create on of your own? One that others would observe, understand and teach the next generation? Where do you go to learn that?

...and would you still go for it if there isn't going to be much monetary success?

My brain just fuzzed with some thoughts....
Maybe the way we view "money" needs to be reconsidered..