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I think a good start on both aspects is through personal metrics. Being better than you were last week, or last year, or even last night is a better model of success than comparing yourself to others, and it's simple enough for a child to understand. Alongside comes instilling the wisdom - or at least the habit - of choosing good metrics.
The same mindset might also guide and inform broader aspects of their life, like whether it's better to have 5/15/50 crazy lovers who make your life difficult or one loyal partner that you can trust and rely on, or whether it's better to have 50/150/5000 fake internet friends than five real life close friends who will be there for you in hard times, or good neighbours, and so on. It also provides a functional heuristic for gauging other people's trajectories. Is that "inner city youth" working to improve their life and someone who represents a positive contribution, or are they presenting an appearance of success by exploiting others? What about that business district executive?
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