# Achievement Success - that’s a major goal in your life. Meeting your own standards of excellence is very important to you. It propels you forward. Likely a perfectionist at heart, you strive to be the best you can be. And if you get recognition and approval in the process, that really is the cherry on top. {% hint style="success" %} ### Value items: ambitious, successful, capable, influential, **intelligent, self-respect, social recognition** {% endhint %} ![Achievement](/files/Q7WMt0TsWkjMurM5B9cH) ### Defining goal: personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards. Competent performance that generates resources is necessary for individuals to survive and for groups and institutions to reach their objectives. As defined here, achievement values emphasize demonstrating competence in terms of prevailing cultural standards, thereby obtaining social approval. (Achievement values differ from McClelland's (1961) achievement motivation. Achievement motivation concerns meeting internal standards of excellence. It is expressed in self-direction values.) {% hint style="info" %} Schwartz, S. H. (2012). An Overview of the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 2(1). {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.climatemind.org/knowledge-base/theory-of-basic-values/self-enhancement/achievement.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.