The story inspires parents to wonder about the possibilities for their children, while for youngsters, there is significance in learning that the process of achieving is no less important than the achievement itself.
Sometimes achievement itself engenders the excess: today's agriculture creates so much food at such low cost that who can resist that extra helping?
In the 19th century, the free drinking fountain reflected that sense of achievement: itself, both a useful service and a public monument, an ostentatious celebration of society's ability to supply the basic necessities of life.
If I am being honest, the realisation of the fairytale that was Leicester City's Premier League title win annoyed me a little, as much as I was cheered by the achievement itself.
So does the way the Kiwi media seemed to make more of his meeting Lydia Ko, the young Kiwi who won silver in the golf, than of Ko's achievement itself.
It's unlikely Iñárritu will triumph just one year after Birdman, but a nomination for the Mexican film-maker most definitely is in the books – the fact that he even got The Revenant made is an achievement itself.
