successism

== English == === Etymology === From success +‎ -ism, probably after the Japanese 成功主義. === Pronunciation === === Noun === successism (uncountable) The ideology of striving for competition; achievement-orientation. The worship or idealization of success. ==== Quotations ==== 1999, risshishugi: successism, achievement-orientation, self-help — (in the glossary, at page 231 of A History of Japan - From Stone Age to Superpower, by Kenneth G. Henshall, Palgrave) Date unknown: Successism is the mistaken application of worldly standards of success and failure to the work of the ministry of the church. — John A. Kohler, III in Successism and the Church ==== Translations ====