Allen D W
Psychiatry. 1979 May;42(2):171-6. doi: 10.1080/00332747.1979.11024021.
There are many measures of success. For example, Logan Pearsall Smith, the English essayist, wrote: "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?" (quoted in Flesch). Conventional measures of success include the attainment of wealth, position, esteem, favor, or eminence, but these things without an accompanying enforcement of self-esteem cause stress--emotional discomfort or strain. Self-esteem, then, is perhaps the essence of the conscious, pleasurable experiencing of success.
成功有许多衡量标准。例如，英国散文家洛根·皮尔索尔·史密斯写道：“他们怎么能说我的人生不成功呢？六十多年来，我不是一直有足够的食物吃，也没有被吃掉吗？”（引自弗莱什）传统的成功衡量标准包括获得财富、地位、尊重、喜爱或卓越成就，但这些东西如果没有随之而来的自尊，就会造成压力——情绪上的不适或紧张。因此，自尊或许是有意识地、愉悦地体验成功的本质。
