We believe that success can mean different things to different people – not everyone wants the same thing, what drives happiness and fulfillment for one person doesn’t necessarily predict what will for another. That said – if we simply think of success as being effective at achieving one’s goal – whatever those goals might be – then we can set a sort of common

Janice Si

In this digital world, agencies and media are bombarding people with ads that can easily overstimulate them. Many measure success by cold, hard data points like conversion rates, click-through rates, and profits. While I agree these metrics are important, I believe success should also be evaluated by the long-term impact we create. Read more>>

Barbara Brutt

Success is such a shiny word, isn’t it? Our news sources flash with stories of “success,” and yet, rarely do people reach that level of success. When I consider the word “success,” I think it’s essential to determine an actual tangible definition of that success. As a child, I took years and years of dance classes, but I never considered myself to be a dancer because there were so many other dancers who were better than me. So there goes a decade of my life that was spent as a dancer, and I never felt like I was successful enough to be called a dancer. A few years later, I began to write, and someone asked me if I was a writer. I wanted to shrug it off, but then I realized that I could claim the word “writer” even now when I didn’t feel like I was good enough. Read more>>

Kurt Vinci

Success seems to be a trial and error process. It also helps to think about our own personal definition of success. For me, each small win is another step to the end goal of making cartoons for a living. With each small victory, even if it’s simply learning a new tool, that’s a way of measuring progress objectively. An example of this is when I was really young, maybe six years old, I drew my first flip book. After seeing a commercial for South Park and seeing that simple art style, it really inspired me to make something, and the feeling I got from bringing a drawing to life made it clear that this was what I wanted to do everyday. Fast forward to today: my friend and I co-directed and produced our first animated pilot and it’s being seen by people from around the world. Read more>>