A “compassionate achiever” is someone who attains success by helping others.

Many people (too many) seemingly believe that you have to take a “survival of the fittest”/self-centered approach to life in order to achieve success. Statistical surveys and daily headlines tell us that we are living in an increasingly callous, uncivil, and self-absorbed world.

If you look under the headlines and deeper into the science, however, all the empirical evidence shows that success is not only greater but more sustainable when achieved through a “survival of the kindest”/compassionate approach.

Compassionate achievers know this and their successes challenge the notion that you have to look out for number one in order to be number one.

A common adage is that “it’s lonely at the top” because achieving success is supposedly a cruel and self-serving process. My research and work on compassion, in contrast, has shown that success is not only easier but more durable and fulfilling when it’s achieved interdependently rather than independently. My book, The Compassionate Achiever offers a wide range of evidence for following an interconnected—as opposed to an unconnected—approach to achieving success and it provides a step-by-step program for how to do it. It’s never lonely at the top when you’re a compassionate achiever.

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