# Success is a grim reinforcer Created On: 03-31-2023 12:11 pm Up:: [[Success]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: [[Awareness]] Related:: [[Signal vs noise]] --- Just because you're "externally successful", such as material and or social fame, doesn't mean that you're ethically successful. Check yourself: always come back to ethics. If you're ethically successful, that is true success. Everything else is a grim noise. Be careful when you're positively reinforcing your direction based on your historic "success".