Trap #4 - The Metrics Of Success

Discussion Questions:

1. What are the healthiest measures of success?
2. Why do you think achievement, money, popularity, or experiences are seen as proof of success?
3. Why have these things become the main markers of success? Who sets those standards?
4. Have you ever felt like you had to prove your value by what you’ve done, what you own, or where you’ve been?
5. Do you feel free to define success for yourself? How much pressure do you feel to live up to what others expect?
6. What kinds of success are often not celebrated in our society, but still deeply important?
7. If you had no fear of judgment or comparison, what would your personal definition of success be?
8. What does God says should be the true measures of success?
9. Who do you think has had the greatest influence on the way you measure success?
10. Where should we get our self-worth from, if not from these materialistic measures of success?

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Priyan Max Jeganathan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity. A former lawyer and political & policy adviser, Max was educated at the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. You can read Max’s book ‘The Freedom Trap’ to further unpack the ideas that are introduced in this clip.