Can success be a form of failure?
A provocation about achievements that satisfy the metric while damaging the person, community, system, or original purpose.
A product may grow while degrading trust. A student may receive the highest score while becoming afraid to think without instructions. A company may become efficient by transferring instability to workers. A person may reach the goal and discover that the cost changed who they wanted to be.
Success is always success according to some measure. The question is what that measure leaves outside the frame.
This provocation connects Freedom includes consequences, Decisions and outcomes are different, and What is education for?.