Counter-example: what if you're a happy slave? Would you consider that success? Slaves are Submissive, the lowest level of Presence. Their achieving happiness doesn't count for much.
What if you're a happy servant? Or a happy minion? Already you can see this is more challenging, more ambitious, and more worthy of the appellation of 'success'.
Now, everyone's conception of success will look different but it's obvious that Presence has something to do with it. Let's take Psychopaths as a reductive example.
Con men and shills can be successful, but they're rather pathetic compared to, say, a Lord of War. Seen the movie? Now that guy was a huge success.
Fostering wars across the planet, responsible for millions of deaths and uncountable destruction while snorting cocaine off of strippers' tits. What more could a Psychopath ask for?
I would tell you what more a Psychopath could ask for except there's no doubt many psychopaths reading this and I don't want to give any of them ideas.
Confidence is one aspect of Presence which is an aspect of Clarity which is Innate Power (though Clarity is the more accurate word). But Confidence is a LOW aspect of Presence. A higher aspect of it is Forcefulness. A still higher is Strength of Purpose.
I'm not going to go into mental theory in the margins of this comment box. But you are confident when you have Clarity about what you want and also about how to get what you want.
It doesn't matter a lick how much money you have or how many muscles you have if you don't know how to apply these things to reality in order to get what you want.
Note that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with Wealth OR Success. What Foreman is really saying is that wealth matters for jack shit next to confidence and that confidence is infinitely more precious, rare and valuable. Which is true.
Especially in the 20th century when out of 11 billion humans that lived, 90% topped out their Presence at Submissive, 9% topped out at Passive, and less than 1% were Assertive and above.
What Foreman called Confidence was probably Assertiveness. Of course, Assertiveness is only +1 on a scale running from -1 to +6. So really, rather pathetic. To me anyways.
No, no it's not compassion. Not unless compassion is your Core Value. But as Core Values are individual, it would only be your conception of success.
If compassion isn't your core value then it's a concept close to 'altruism' which is the lowest Presence level of Good. That is, Altruism = Submissive Good.
And maybe for you rising up to the bottom of the barrel of Good people is "success" but I rather think success is when you've reached the other end of the Presence scale and you're a god.
This discussion could get very technical very, very quickly. In fact, it's already gone far beyond your vocabulary in mental theory and your ability to grasp the concepts. I doubt you even know what a god is.
You've done the equivalent of asking "what does well-designed software look like?" and answering your question with "could it have something to do with assignment operators?" To which I respond "Um, yeah, no."
I think I just realized why Americans are so in love with freaking Buddhism. They want their spirituality downsized.