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The moral of this story is do whatever brings you happiness. Strive for what you seek to get out of life whether that be money, love, possessions, experiences, ect. We must realize what kind of culture we live in and truly look inside to see what we really value. Only then can we be happy and achieve "success" whatever than means to each individual.

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In an article in Psychology Today, it visits the topic that not everyone can "follow their childhood dreams". A lot of people either don't really want to do what they dreamt of as a child or they don't have the financial ability to do so. The expectation for everyone to achieve all their goals from childhood creates more dissatisfaction than satisfaction in this way. The way around this is to realize that goals and accomplishments can vary, change, and grow.

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Randy leaves us with important advice, "It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you" (206). So the dreams aren't really the success it's about how you lead your life.

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Emilie Wapnick talks about how one singular idea of success is limiting, and to fully be content with one's life, you need to liberate yourself from cultural restraints.

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This TED talk explores the ideas of people who don't just have one continous goal throughout their lives, but their valued accomplishments vary throughout their life. Listen at point 3:20 untill 4:30, although the entire video applies.

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Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling | Emilie Wapnick | TED

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Pausch, Randy, and Jeffrey Zaslow. The Last Lecture. Hachette Books, 2018.

LearnVest. “Money Does Buy Happiness! (We Were Shocked, Too).” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 25 Jan. 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2013/01/25/money-does-buy-happiness-we-were-shocked-too/#6991ba792ef8.

Davis, Kathleen, and Kathleen Davis. “Scientific Proof That Buying Things Can Actually Lead To Happiness (Sometimes).” Fast Company, Fast Company, 6 July 2016, www.fastcompany.com/3061516/scientific-proof-that-buying-things-can-actually-buy-happiness-sometimes.

“Why Some of Us Don't Have One True Calling.” Performance by Emilie Wapnick, TED, Apr. 2019, www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling?referrer=playlist-how_to_understand_your_inner_p#t-287437.

“The Problem with ‘Follow Your Dreams.’” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/test-case/201304/the-problem-follow-your-dreams-0.

Also huge thanks to all the students that participated in my one-on-one interviews!!!

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Randy Pausch writes "all the things I loved were rooted in the dreams and goals I had as a child... I knew that despite the cancer, I truly believed I was a lucky man because I had lived out these dreams"(The Last Lecture, Pg 10) Pausch believed the key to life is living our these dreams. His final wisdom was achieving your goals will bring happiness and success.
This is a photo that I drew in my thought log to depict his childhood dreams and how what he loves is rooted in them.

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By Randy Pausch
Pausch is a personal account of a man on his death bed. He has one last lecture to bestow his wiscoms onto his children and his students. He chooses to focus on accomplishing childhood dreams and how that is an indicator of success, like many Nicolet students believed.

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Studies show that it's not HOW MUCH you buy, but it's WHAT you buy. Experienes actually are proven to create more happiness/ contentment, but material possessions actually generate dissatisfaction.
Companies create products to be useless or replaceble in a short amount of time leaving the consumer with a feeling of failure and desire for more. Moral of this story: spend money on experiences and life long items, and wealth doesn't nescarily equal happiness but it opens doors to opprotunities and achieve goals.

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The United States of America does not follow this trend. Increased wealth correlates with DECREASED happiness in our country. The U.S.A. is the single most consumer of the world's resources and one of the richest countries in the world, so why aren't we happy?

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This graph shows average country satisfaction ladder score of 1 through 10 and how it correlates with GDP per capita. There is a slight correlation, but too many outliers to say the money really makes one happy.

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Some of our generations most "successful" people are WEALTHY

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Some of our generations most "successful" people are WEALTHY

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Kylie Jenner was recently featured in Forbes for her "self-made" millions. She has the single most followers on instagram and is one of the most covered in the press. When I think successful, I think Kylie. However, my definition doesn't exaclty fit her lfestyle. Is this false association? If success is happiness, does money really make you happy?

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Claim: To be successful means living your life in a way that brings on a state of contentment through meaningful accomplishments. 

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Claim: To be successful means living your life in a way that brings on a state of contentment through meaningful accomplishments. 

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This is a conlcusion I came to after reading my book, "The Last Lecture" and through my own personal research. As you have seen, an overwelming amount of people I interviewed at Nicolet believe sucess means living your life to be content, but what makes someone content or happy?

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What is success?