In summary, what are your thoughts on what it takes to be successful?

[Anomalocaris]

Or one could take a brutally biological view and say humans, for all their vainglorious pretenses, are nothing more than baroque phases in the reproductive cycles of gametes  .    So success in human life means doing the most to ensure the genes embodied in the eggs and sperms that made it are represented in the gene pool far into the future.


Don’t get too full of yourself.   You are just gamete’s way of making more gametes.

Ok, I will show myself out now.