Examples of preplanned super-success.

I haven’t met anyone who compares to Ben Franklin as a person functioning at that level of human development. And yet, if someone studied this Well-Being Score method of guiding their life through their youth and college years, they might come close. 

I haven’t met John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but on a reading of his childhood ambitions, it is clear that as a child, he had his eye on advancement to the highest levels and laid out a plan to get there. 

Another person, who was the daughter of immigrants politically complaining by marching in the streets of Berkeley, told her mother, while still a child, that she didn’t want to be a person outside picketing the decision-makers; she wanted to be inside making the decisions. Kamala Harris then laid out the strategy for climbing the ladder and is now Vice President of the United States. 

The pinnacle of success can be sought and attained.

All three of these people were born to relatively successful but not unusual parents, and it was using their abilities and forethought that brought them to eminence. They realized at an early age that to reach the top level of achievement, they needed the skills and experience of what this series of posts has been calling a Well-Being Score of 20/20. All of them, while young, had published things that were considered philosophically sophisticated. See #1 Happy +5 for a description of that worldview. Note that this was an intellectual worldview for an adolescent and not an already completed accomplishment.

Most humans choose the middle road to success.

When we drop down the Well-Being Score two levels to #3 Happy +3, we can read the world view of the kind of success sought by ordinary people. It would be the kind of success that would make most people’s parents proud of them. This 12/20 Well-Being Score is the kind of success that one will attain if they do well in school, get a job with an established business, and perform as expected. If a person aged twelve read this strategy, it would prepare them for achieving what people consider a wholesome life.

Individuals can choose a life of unconstrained exuberance.

If we drop two levels more to the Well-Being Score #1 Happy +1, we will meet people seeking rebellion against the constraints of the restrictions placed by others, society, or the world in general. The goal is to get high and live with unconstrained exuberance and freedom. Then, to rant at reality and destroy all that impedes them. 

Lifestyle is an individual choice.

Each of these proposed lifestyles is very different. It is unlikely that a person who has infused a Well-Being Score lifestyle of these values when leaving college will ever shift even a single level. However, these styles are intentional and can be changed at any time in life, but it will most likely happen about the age of eighteen.