When we look at people who have achieved big things in life and have made a name for themselves, we wonder: what is it exactly that makes them so successful? What do they have that we don’t? Well, here’s a list of 15 traits of highly successful people. Read on and adopt these for yourself so you can also taste the true feeling of success!
Highly successful people:
1. Have a Competitive Streak - Most successful people have a definite competitive steak. And that makes sense because if you want to be successful, you need to have the desire to win. That is why people who succeed are also the ones who hate losing and have a competitive drive that sets them apart from others.
2. Don't Dwell on the Past: Another important trait of successful people is that they don't dwell on their past mistakes. That is because they know that by wasting their time on things they cannot change, they will simply end up slowing down their progress in the future. What they do instead is that they learn from their mistakes and move on to their next challenge with the commitment that they would avoid making those mistakes again.
3. Know Their Faults - Successful people are highly self-critical. And that is a good thing because it enables them to recognize their weaknesses and then find ways to overcome those weaknesses to further improve their performance. The need to do better and better is thus a very important trait in successful people.
4. Are Detail-Oriented: While this particular trait
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It is every person’s wish to progress or, move from one point to another in life. Everybody loves being successful. However, there are a number of factors, which should be put into consideration in order to be successful. These are fundamental things that got you where you are, but will not get you to your destiny. On this note, this paper will discuss at length, the important factors that should be taken into account, so as to be successful. The paper will start by introducing the relevance of success, and later delve on what factors will get you there, and sum up by giving an overall view on the topic at
Being successful in life is not always easy, because of different ways that success can be achieved. With many theories out there on success, it is hard to figure out what is needed to be done to gain success. In everyone’s lives there are many different beliefs out there that can lead to it. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, there are numerous theories that are covered with examples of successful people. They clearly show how success can be done in not just one way but in many others. The most known people that are considered to be successful are billionaires and celebrities. They all have gained success in their lives in their own diverse ways. A good set of successful people in the world today to talk about are Mark Zuckerberg, Whitney Houston, and Nicholas Sparks. These people all come from different backgrounds before gaining their success. Malcolm Gladwell discussed many theories in the book “Outliers” that can relate to the success of the people mentioned above. The true knowledge behind success can be achieved in numerous ways.
ATTITUDE: Always have a positive attitude. Remember success is 10% ability and 90% attitude! If you think that you can achieve, then you can achieve.
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The most overall successful people in the world didn’t simply follow a straight path to success. As human beings, there are more than enough mountains to climb and fears to overcome. I have found myself in some of the most difficult situations at times and I somehow made my way out of them with tougher skin to work with. Through these seemingly insurmountable challenges, I persevered and have found that there is hardly any such thing as luck. There is only hard work and laziness.
When I first came across the list of qualities of successful students I started to evaluate myself. Do I have self-control? Do I always show gratitude? As I asked these questions I realized some
For years now, many students have thought “How do I grow up too be successful?” but the truth here is that the people asking this, don't know what success really means to them. Accomplishment can be defined in a variety of ways, such as the amount of money a person makes, how happy an individual is by themselves, or even achieving in the simple things in life. You can, however, gain the characteristics needed to be successful in the future, for example, patience, determination, and a straight mindset. Accidental effects can also come into play, for instance dumb luck that can happen to anybody and the wealth gap between the person or the school they attend. These are just three of the most important traits a scholar must have in order to get somewhere in their future of education and in life down the path they may take.
Most people in today’s society define success as someone who makes a lot of money or has done something important to help form today’s society. People such as Bill Gates or Donald Trump are considered successful because they have lots of money. Even actors whose lives are wrecked and destroyed are considered successful because of the money they have. Others, like Thomas Edison, are considered successful because of accomplishments they achieved in their lives. Thomas Edison, for example, created the light bulb, so most people would consider him successful. In his book, Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill gives 13 steps on how to have the right mindset, attitude, and ability to become successful.
These successful people are dedicated and are more appreciative for what they have because they know how hard they worked to reach their goals. A worn out old Honda from the early 2000’s bought by a high school student working part time can mean so much more than a brand new 2017 Lexus some rich teenager bought with their parents money. The time and effort put forth by those who achieve their goals like buying a car make them more successful than those who are given what they have without working for it. Likewise, those who are given certain spots in activities like a club or a sports team only because of their family, money, or popularity are unsuccessful as well. Someone who barely made it into a club or sports team due to their hard work is the more successful one because again the spot wasn’t just handed to them. Therefore, the people who are most successful are often not famous or have a lot of novelties rather are those who are the most dedicated and work their hardest to attain their
Success, it is a mystery for some. Malcom Gladwell, however, decided to dive in and figure out the mystery in his novel, Outliers: The Story of Success. In this novel he examined the success of people such as Bill gates and Bill joy and even as far as the success of Korean Airlines. Gladwell brings up the point that people are concentrated on the personalities of the successful and neglect to examine what brought them there. This is why Gladwell’s assertion, “if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires” is not supported by his novel because he brought up the importance of time (as in when you are born), opportunities, and culture.
Some people are successful because they are destined to be such. But most people are more successful because they are determined to reach this goal. We just know what we want and how to achieve it. You would probably have laid out your plans for your life already, and that you would exhaust all efforts just to attain what you desire. But sometimes, we question, how come no matter how hard you try to perfect things the way you planned it, circumstances would not allow it? You start thinking, were your efforts not enough to achieve your goals? Or maybe it is just not meant to be? Some people may be too controlling of their lives and get burnt out fast. When this happens, your mindset tends to shift and they turn into a complete opposite of what they used to be.
Sir Winston Churchill once said that Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.