it depends

The real question is: Matters to who?

Nope.

yes it does
God obviously

What matters in life?

Finding meaning and living accordingly (purpose). Inherent in that statement is conviction.

People (and companies) run into trouble when their purpose solely becomes accumulation of wealth. Is any person or company remembered fondly (or passionately) for accumulating wealth?

Hello everyone and Crosmando in particular!

One aspect that have not been touched on (explicitly) is whether you are content or not.

Without getting into details, striving for being content with whatever you have or could achieve is more important than the floaty "success" or "fame", which both vanish far to easily and almost every time to quickly or instantly when you think that you reached them.

Learning to be content independent of your current circumstances allows for much greater and lasting satisfaction in life.

Kind regards,
foxgog

the only thing matters is the race

Doesn't matter to me... who cares after you dead lmao

Depends on what you call ''success''. If it means having things that broader society says ''successful'' people have, then I'd say its mostly pointless because social perceptions of successful people are based almost entirely on materialistic fantasies. Add to that a lot of ''success'' is fake or a shadow of what a person actually has.

Success could also mean not being a failure. But even if merely not being a failure is your goal, you're still bound by what other people think ''failure'' is. Failure and people's perceptions of it depend on their priorities and through the years, I've seen many of my friends who many people would consider ''failures'' do well in life and be happy.

Somewhat related to this is what the internet (or at least the more social-media active people) seem to consider as constituting failure. Ie not having a spouse / bf / gf not and having a YT/ Twt / FB / IG profile that's always growing and pushing numbers. Seems like a bad metric to me.

By success if you mean being able to get by, then success is absolutely necessary. Because whether life is pointless or not, having less of it means you were unsuccessful in redeeming all of your ''allotted'' time.

If it matters to success depends on whether you are Cess or not.

Depends of course how one defines success, but yes, personal success is important to one's well-being. This, for some, may mean climbing the Everest once a year, while for others it may mean the chance to enjoy a nice cup of tea on the porch every evening. I personally see it as "being where you want to be in life", an ever moving goal post, not excluding the possibility of deluding oneself in certain cases. Ergo "success" can only be as truthful and genuine as its bearer.

But in the end, it doesn't even matter - Linkin Park

Than game achievements
I've heard you can bring those to afterlife

^Pretty much this.

Two good ways to become unhappy:

1) Setting your sights too high.
Nothing wrong with a challenge, but it should be realistic. To reach a challenging goal it's better to map out smaller steps first that are easily achievable. If you fail at a big, daunting challenge, it can be frustrating and de-motivating. But smaller steps keep up a constant flow of little successes.

2) Related to that: Never look back.
I think that's a common problem. Instead of looking back and cherishing what one already achieved, and being happy about it, there's immediately the next thing that needs to be done. If this happens with tasks "from the outside" (ie. swamped at work) that's a good way into burn-out and depression. But it can also happen when you're driven by your own goals without ever stopping.
It's really important to look back occasionally, and to actually take in the successes you had. Otherwise they can't do anything for you. And sometimes it may be worth considering that "It's enough, actually. Time for tea on the porch, fuck the Everest.". :-)