Should Success be defined as the ability to live your life your own way?

Success is a very relative term. It means different things to different people. While most of the people associate it with accumulating material objects such as a home, car, etc, some others associate it with non-material accomplishments such as gaining knowledge, spiritual enlightenment, etc. All these definitions have their own pros and cons. But to define Success as the ability to live your life in your own way is not appropriate. Success can be better …

…made any progress? Evolution? Defining success is not just defining a term. It's your way of looking at life. It's your attitude towards life. Though you are free to have any views that you want to, however, if a considerable number of people harbor such an attitude, it would adversely affect the entire human race. Therefore, I feel this definition has inherent faults in it and we should try to find a more progressive definition.