The Crucibles of Success

Some Dreams Are Never Born

Would success be better defined by the following criteria?

Technical: that it satisfies the designated outcome. This may be measured by a list of objectives from primary to tertiary targets.
Example: Euclidean comparison and distance as a means of measurement.

Some people don’t ‘succeed’ all their lives, not because their solutions are not right, but they are not wanted or accepted. From the most dejected philosophers, such as Confucius, Socrates and Plato, who thought they had failed, to the most ignored scientists, like Nikola Tesla, who died in obscurity, and the unnoticed mathematician, like Maryam Mirzakhani, the only woman to win a Fields Medal, who died with so few people grieving.

Dr Bose will be our next Tesla’s story. Dr Qian who was the Von Brun and Alan Turing in one, remains unknown to so many who have a polarity in historical preference. The story of Christopher Columbus and Steve Jobs are on history revisit and revision. So many fake-it-till-you-make-it social parable are gradually coming to light, even when forewarned, ignored are also revisited, sometimes by court suits, sometimes by biography written by their families or the sight of a ‘sunken ship’. There is no court suits for the dead. However, as we are impressed by some empty high sounding speech of others, we should know it’s quite resounding vacuous. People have to see beyond that cheap and empty “fake-feel-good”.