How to Key to success

While growing up, I have often been told to be successful at what I do. Success is what drives human beings to achieve greatness. But what does it mean to be successful? Many people would say that being successful is being good at a task, but success can mean something different to everybody. To me, being successful is loving what I do, staying positive even if failing at first, and feeling a sense of pride or accomplishment when finished. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” This quote by Herman Cain, an author and radio host, which properly explains how I view success. It is my mom that distilled in me from a very young age that being successful means to love what I do, and she has encouraged me to always do so. She has always told me that if something is not necessary and I do not enjoy it, not to do it. Even if it is just to stop reading an unenjoyable book or a future career choice.

 

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Perseverance is the next step after failure, and has been said to be the power key to success. Perseverance is an attitude of persisting an idea to achieve success, in spite of facing many obstructions or failures. My mom also taught me to persevere and try again if I am ever unsuccessful. When I was really young, and was learning how to do a new task like tie my shoes, my mom would not assist me after she knew that I knew the proper way to tie my shoes. She would make me sit on the floor and start to tie my shoes about half an hour before we had to leave to go somewhere. She would encourage me and not rush me until I finally got my shoes tied. It took me some time to learn and tie my shoes well, but eventually I did. Now I know the value of perseverance when it comes to success in life. When people persevere and work harder for their success, they usually have a larger sense of pride or accomplishment when they do.
 
 
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone." To me this quote embodies what is it takes to be successful. Much like a marathon the goal isn't to come in first place and win but to simply finish and to do that you have to want to keep going, the pace at which you do so is irrelevant as long as you finish. Success has no definite definition like love it has many different meanings and holds true to different things for different people. Although society has its claims on what…show more content…
The only guidelines this “10,000 hour rule” falls under in terms of success is the dedication put forth. Gladwell exclaims that “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.” If you are willing and able to practice something for 10,000 hours you have shown an immense amount of dedication already therefore in a way becoming in Gladwell's eyes successful. I believe that success is different for everyone. To say that doing 10,000 hours of something will make you successful is irrational much like love you can't measure success under such terms. To some doing something for 5 hours is enough to personally fulfill their their goal and happiness. In my opinion looking from a younger generations eyes this is setting up for disappointment and failure to tell someone they can only be truly successful at something is if they practicing for 10,000 is insane. Although there is much truth to this, the reality is most people don't set out to be the greatest of all time but the greatest in their hearts and perhaps practicing for just 2 hours a day for a month is enough for them to appreciate what they have done or learned. Although it can be argued that children with a better upbringing may be able to reach success because they were taught to not always accept the answer “no”, does not mean other children can not reach success. A study that Gladwell bought up in his book the Outliers, shows that children
 
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