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Every individual carries within himself an idea of what success is and what he wants to reach in life. He may feel that he has lived up to his idea of success and that he has reached what he wanted to reach. He may feel that he has made at least steps in the right direction, since the realization of success depends upon time. The individual age will be, of course, a wider factor in the determination of one's success and future aspirations. Success is the realization of an anticipated ideal of oneself in relation to the outside world. One may look to the success in the near or in the far future. Different individuals have different time horizons concerning success.
One's idea of success is therefore one's ideal either in the present or projected into the future. One may expect for oneself something in the outward world of power, money, comfortable enjoyment or one may expect gratifications by other human beings like sexual enjoyment, admiration one gets from others or friendship in any form. One may put the emphasis on achievements in the outside world,—invention and technical mastery; social usefulness by non-technical achievements in the intellectual and moral sphere. One may put the emphasis on one's own perfection and may want business capacity (executive); intellectual superiority in the scientific or artistic field; social attractiveness; sexual attractiveness or emotional and moral values.