Friday, September 26, 2008

You Want To Win Or You Want To Succeed

Is there any difference between “To Win “and “To Succeed “? Are they relative terms for every one of us. Some or the other way in this or that we want either of these. Do we ever take or bother to understand the thin line differentiating these two.
When we win, do we succeed? Or when we succeed, do we always win? We never bother to think about this, do we? Many a times we are so obsessed with will to win that we don’t bother to think where we are reaching and are we really after winning. Now a day’s even small children play to win not for joy or fun or recreation. Winning only makes us happy, not playing. Winning matters the most how so ever it may come we just want to be a winner not giving a thought at what cost. This is the impact of the output driven work culture and system which asks you to deliver to meet deadline to achieve higher growth rate, increase efficiency. Many a times I feel we are like a racing horse .Not even knowing what wining is, but want to reach there and deliver under the pressure and being pushed for it. We never observe at many a times we actually loose even though we are victorious.
No doubt winning is important. But I feel succeeding is a term more universal and considering more aspects.
How I define Succeeding?
Satisfying yourself, core shell (people who matter to you) of yours while achieving what you are working for or towards. How is this going to be different? We all are brought up in a family culture where we stay and live together. Where we inadvertently learn and follow the habit of sharing, through joy or sorrow, be it laugh or scream. The bottom line remains we like to share and we care. How, with whom, where are really not significant.
So while wining we many a times forget this basic need of ours sharing and caring, considering others. This starts a feeling of being left out not only in your surrounding people but also within yourself when you are deprived of joy, satisfaction. Initially like we too tolerate small things bothering us everybody ignores this feeling of left out or separated. But as things start accumulating we start feeling the heat.
While winning we you may not succeed but while succeeding you will definitely win and will achieve more.
This will have a lot of opinions and counter arguments like wining is not always what I have said but after all it’s what I feel.
I define success as not a fruitful gain always but a determined step forward.
So I will like to succeed, what will you prefer?

3 comments:

Asawari said...

Good written !!Win or success? Win without satisfaction,Win without enjoying the struggle to get there is definitely of less value.There is a saying in Hindi..'kuch pane ke liye kuch khona bhi padata hai'In order to win we have 2 lose smthing.Bt at the same time,we shud pay attention 2 wat we r losing n decide which thing is more important to us.
One more thing,if u go by dictionary meaning of win and success,success is associated with name and fame while win is associated with triumph after a struggle or a battle.If you keep satisfaction aside,then may be...Win gains points over Success.Because toil to reach desired goal makes it worth, while name and fame comes afterwards.

Expressions said...

good one.

Parag Hadas said...

nicely written...
I think win is more individual oriented or group oriented.. where as
success has more of social nature attached to it....
or win has short term impact but success has long term or life long impact
...for example..

oneself might win some races but that does not mean he is successful in
that sport
someone might pass(win) exams but that does not mean he is successful.. in
future...
there can be lots of such examples.. and real life examples also...(no
offense).. but take example of Vinod Kambli and Sachin Tendulkar
Vinod may have won... but Sachin is successful than him.. isn't it...to
add to that... is Sachin as successful as Sir Don Bradman.... :)..