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What It Means To Be Successful
hat It Means To Be Successful:
Lessons from the Lives of Homeless Women is a research
project led by Althea Murray and a group of women from
On The Rise. The resulting report is deeply instructive.
It demonstrates that a community of homeless women has
been able to create its own alternative vision of social
success that prioritizes kindness over affluence, work
over salary, and daily decency over bank balance. With
the elusive American dream beyond their immediate reach,
these women define their accomplishments in more than simply
material terms. Four basic themes were found that together
form for women an alternative definition of “success”:
- Working in meaningful ways,
- Achieving small victories,
- Holding the door open for others, and
- Surviving, living, and telling.
Two core needs that run through each of these themes are:
- The need for success to be obtainable, and
- The need to be recognized and remembered as an individual
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