Monday, November 24, 2014

Thinking About Success


Factors for Success
Luck, Opportunity, Skill, and Hard work are all very important when dealing with the topic of success. When given the assignment to rank these 4 key factors of success in rank of which makes a person the most successful, I was faced with three questions. Question one: Which factor has given me the most success in my life? Question two: Which factor has given significant public figures the most success? Question three: What Factor out of the four would you be the most successful without? After thinking about these questions I came to the conclusion that they fall in this order of importance: Hard Work, Skill, Opportunity and then luck. Any person can go without luck if they work hard enough or have prepared themselves for whats ahead. Hard work has gotten me to where I am today; in sports, school and in my social life. Many people have to work very hard most of their lives to develop their skills, but when looking at the most influential people of today's world it is almost as if they were given their skills at birth. Whether the person is an actor, the president, or a professional athlete, it looks as if they were blessed with a skill and hard work was not hardly needed. For an ordinary person I believe that hard work will cause give them more success than the other three options.

Reflecting on the law of least effort vs. hard work
This picture illustrates a man hard at work.

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