In the year 1958, Ferruccio Lamborghini, owner of the Lamborghini tractor company, had finally managed to scrape together enough money to buy the car of his dreams, the Ferrari 250GT.

But to Lamborghini’s surprise, the car's clutch was not working well, and after many fruitless visits to the Toyota shop, he was able to fix it himself using tractor parts.

Lamborghini then decided to share some helpful tips with Enzo Ferrari on how to solve the problem, which he didn't take very well: expressing with disapproval that Lamborghini should just stick to making tractors.

This incident was enough to awaken his sense of competition, and the famous automobile manufacturing company, Lamborghini was born, with an ambitious saying from the owner:

"Now I want to make a G.T. car without faults. Not a technical bomb. Very normal, very conventional, but a perfect car."

We move on from the world of Italian cars to navigate a story about one of the leading pioneers of American animation.

When we think of Disney, the first thing that comes to mind is Mickey Mouse.

But what we do not know is that this famous character arose from the anger of its owner and the tragedy he was subjected to.

In 1927, twenty-six-year-old Walt Disney owned a start-up animation company with his brother under the name The Disney Brothers Studio. A year after opening, Walt Disney was able to negotiate a contract to make a series of short films with a company called Winkler, and he created a character that gained some fame at the time, known as "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit".

But Disney did not encounter any “luck” whatsoever, as after he asked to renegotiate the contract and get a higher salary, the manager told him that he had replaced the entire Disney team and offered him a lower salary if he wanted to keep his job, and he also informed him that all the rights to the character Oswald belongs to Winkler, not him.

Disney quit angrily and decided to make do with his studio. During the train trip back to New York City, he completely redesigned the character of Oswald the Rabbit and turned him into "Mickey" the mouse. Feelings of disappointment and bitterness raged inside him, without knowing at the time that "Mickey Mouse" would be his ticket to fame and success.

The moral of these two stories is that success has no synonym in any of the known languages, and the idea that success has a "key factor" is based on delusion. Success is a flexible concept that can take on a different meaning in each person's life, determined by various facets such as emotions, life experiences, and personal relationships.

Therefore, it is unfair to set restrictive and limited standards, instead each individual should be given the freedom to formulate their own meaning for success, without thinking too much about the “how” and the “when”.