I feel we usually judge success unidimensionally. There should be a way to take the whole picture into account. I propose the Poloygon of Success. The idea is simple, pick 5 plus/minus 2 general categories of life that are important to you. Place these equidistantly on a circle. The center of the circle is the Zero point. Success in each dimension is measured on a 1 to 10 scale and then plotted as shown in (the badly made) image here. Connect the final scores to get your success polygon, i.e the greater the area inside the polygon the more successful you have been. The polygon made by the points on the circle represents your maximum possible success of course.
Moscow had an interesting idea: let this be a cascaded success polygon. Which means that each dimension can be broken down into its own polgyon to measure the amount of success in it and so on.
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Measuring success may be more of a definitional rather than a "dimensional" issue. Regardless of what area is covered by your polygon formula, it cannot be a determinative factor towards what constitutes success or how successful one is or hope to be.
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