Maybe part of the problem is that success is the wrong goal. Those voices and that nagging - we think more "success" can calm them but the reason it doesn't is success isn't really our goal - it is significance. Success is finite - it means we achieved some goal, but then what - you have to start towards the next goal. Significance is infinite - it lives on forever impacting another and another and another and deep down we all want to live on forever. Since we don't know how to do that we chase success hoping to catch significance.
I'm not sure it's about significance either. Bono is certainly a significant person but even his accomplishments are finite. I think it's about acceptance, appreciating the day-to-day, and doing things because they're worth doing not because we think any one will notice or--even if they did--that their attention will make us feel okay.
Maybe part of the problem is that success is the wrong goal. Those voices and that nagging - we think more "success" can calm them but the reason it doesn't is success isn't really our goal - it is significance. Success is finite - it means we achieved some goal, but then what - you have to start towards the next goal. Significance is infinite - it lives on forever impacting another and another and another and deep down we all want to live on forever. Since we don't know how to do that we chase success hoping to catch significance.
I'm not sure it's about significance either. Bono is certainly a significant person but even his accomplishments are finite. I think it's about acceptance, appreciating the day-to-day, and doing things because they're worth doing not because we think any one will notice or--even if they did--that their attention will make us feel okay.