Up to me

today we had a writing topic that asked how to I define success to myself? I think I define success by how much I get success. if im at practice and im practicing to get better at something I don't see or feel success until it pays off. I feel like that's how we all judge success by if it pays off or not because if it doesn't pay off and you "fail" at something than there's no point in saying that you "succeeded" when you didn't.