Success requires pursuing a meaningful ideal through continuous self-improvement. The document advises asking yourself what will make your life fulfilling and starting now to achieve it, rather than waiting until later in life. It also discusses how unlimited growth is unsustainable given finite resources, and how future generations should adopt more sustainable career paths.

1. Success is a progressive
realization of a worthy ideal

2. Purpose
• Success can’t be found at ease.
• Finding Success Starts with in you

3. Purpose
• As you get started thinking about a deeper vision for significant success, ask yourself a
few questions:
• Don’t wait until you’re at the top of your field or late in life to live a flourishing, more
meaningful life. Instead, start now — whether you are 15, 25, or 55 — and put serious
thought into what will make your life meaningful, joyful, and fulfilled.

4. What Limits To Growth
• Growth solves some problems but creates others.
• The Earth is finite, the reliance and faith in growth creates a false hope.
• The goal of Donella Meadows is to outline the issues and hopefully future
generations will adopt career paths that will be at their core sustainable.

5. What Limits To Growth
• There is a limited rate at which humans can extract resources and emit wastes
without exceeding the productive or absorptive capacities of the world.
• Crucial sources are emptying or degrading, many sinks are filling up or overflowing.
• The human economy cannot be maintained at their current rates for much longer.

6. What Limits To Growth
• The Earth is entering into periods of positive feedback loops.