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Compassion at the deepest level requires us to truly wish the best for someone else. To love them. Unconditionally.

To comprehend love, I think of an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg, the part that sticks up out of the water—this is the part we allow other people to see. For some of us, or in some situations, that visible part is very small. We’re closed off. When we share ourselves more, and when another person holds that space for us, it feels amazing. It feels so good that we want to share even more. We lower the waterline on our iceberg.

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For Scott Shute, mindfulness is a full-time job. Literally. After six years as LinkedIn's vice president of global customer operations, in 2018 he became head of the company's mindfulness and compassion programs.

He leads a team that holds 40 to 60 meditation sessions a week across the globe, hosts workshops on topics such as resilience and a growth mindset, and conducts mini retreats for those who want to deepen their mindfulness practices. His goals are, in his words, to "mainstream mindfulness," in part by making it as normal as exercising, and to "operationalize compassion," by training employees to embed it in every decision they make for the business.

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When we measure our success, it’s often a proxy for how other people view us. Status. Position. Relative rank to the rest of society. This constant comparison is a strategy for misery. The thief of joy. True happiness, real success, comes from developing your own inner strength and contentment.

Here are three ways you are defining success wrong and what you can do to help yourself stay on track.

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