Literary Works about Success

After Paul had given his mother five thousand pounds for her birthday the echoes in the house grew. His mother’s expression did not change when she saw she had been given money. At this point, Paul realized he would forever be in debt to his mother and her nonexistent love for him. With each race he won, the echoes only continued to grow. Paul had created his own downfall because he fed into the house’s haunting words. He was easily manipulated into believing that having money was the only way to be happy. Paul’s mother viewed him as a burden and could not find a way to love him. As a result, he could not keep up with the lavish lifestyle and took his own life by surging madly to find more money. This short story indicates that adults heavily influence the thoughts and feelings children acquire at a young age.

Success comes from self-determination, motivation, and hard work – that was the message I received from reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell helped me understand that the outliers mentioned in the book didn’t gain their success easily. Some may have had lucky opportunities and where born in the right year, but they had to work hard, they were smart, and out of their achievements, they made an impact on society. Prior to reading Outliers, I was lost among the success of others because I thought these people came from wealthy families, which meant they had a head start, but I was wrong. Success has a different meaning to everyone, but the commonalities of success are the advantages and opportunities given to us.

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.

Even though it's Paul's free will to die at the end of the story ,but his death is very much determined by the three contradicting aspects in his character. He longs to be rich, and strongly believes that wealth is the simple solution to all

This message comes from when the mother tells the son that his father is unlucky, little did she know her son was going to take that to heart. She didn’t mean to make the boy go in sane but, she did not knowing her words could hurt someone so bad. “The world today faces unprovoked attacks.” (Squires) this quote states that we don’t intend on hurting people and we don’t notice when we do hurt them. In the story the house whispers “There must be more money! There must be more money!” (Rocking Horse Winner pg.1248) in the reading this quote comes up many times, and Paul being the young boy just wants to

He believes in order to obtain money, one must posses luck. This brings forth the next example of irony present which is shown on pg.77. In a dialogue with his mother, Paul asks “Is luck money, mother?”, and his mother replies “No, Paul. Not quite. It’s what causes you to have money.” Paul then responds “Oh! I thought when Uncle Oscar said filthy lucker it meant money.” This is ironic because Paul interprets filthy lucre as filthy lucker which he believes means luck but really meant money. It shows that Paul does not understand that luck is not money and that statement further shows his misunderstanding between the two concepts.

The book Barking up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker is about the surprising science behind why everything you know about success is mostly wrong (2017). According to Barker, “sucess for you is, well up to you. Its about what you personally need to be happy at work and at home (p.298).” This book focused on a different kind of aspect of what a person thinks sucess is. It talks about how success is not about being perfect and always doing the right thing. Instead, the book shows individuals the aspect of success that works and that doesn't. It also helps an individual on what is the best way to go when we are doubting yourself for sucess. It is mainly knowing what you're good at, your strengths, and the task. Barker illustrates that just because an individual follows the rule doesn’t mean that the person is going to be

At the very beginning, I would like to shed light on what is successful, and how we can be success. In Chinese’s traditional perspective, when you become pretty wealthy, when you have a big house, luxury car, then you are a successful person. However, as we learned in the book “Catching Up or Leading the Way”, the true education

But the boy died in the night.” D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking Horse Winner, Page 13 & 14. In the end the mother lost her son because she was an extremely greedy

The author’s use of personification reveals further issues to greed. That is, once greed reaches a certain level, money cannot satisfy it. Due to the combination of the parents’ expensive lifestyle and their inferior income, their children would hear the house whispering “there must be more money” (Lawrence 377). Simply put, the parents’ income cannot satisfy their expensive demands. Therefore, no matter how much money they earn, their greed always outpaces that amount. In another instance, when Paul earns five-thousand dollars from a horse-race bet, he decides to give his parents one-thousand that year. After that, “the house had been ‘whispering’ worse than ever lately” (383). This use of personification shows that Paul’s financial aid does

Paul is obsessed with money, and his belief that money will solve all his problems leads to unrelenting disappointment in his life. He thinks almost constantly about the humiliation of those who have little money and the power wielded by those who possess lots of it. He keenly analyzes his own slightly impoverished existence and hates every detail: cramped houses, grubby bathrooms, simple clothes, women’s inelegant conversations, and men’s worshipful attitude toward their bosses. He believes that money is the one way out of the existence he loathes. But it becomes clear that Paul will never become one of the prosperous men he idealizes because he has no understanding of the relationship between work and money.

Even John Wooden definition of success is refreshing and unique: Wooden states that success is a peace of mind which is a direct result of self- satisfaction knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. This paper will seek to describe Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and how it fits the business environment at my work place. Also, this paper will identify similarities and differences within the Pyramid of Success by comparing it to leadership styles of the X Theory and the Y Theory. Throughout the Pyramid of Success John Wooden identifies different rationales for each aspect, we will provide our understanding of all his aspects. Lastly, we will attempt to create a new pyramid of success and develop a step by step

Success Built to Last builds on over 200 interviews with highly successful people to discern patterns on how they define success and how they achieved it. The authors spoke to remarkable people that were trimmed down from initial thousand lists to hundreds who were able to sustain success for over a 20 year period. The interviewees were Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer, Grammy, Peabody and Grammy award winners as well as CEOs from small and big companies. The group was comprised of people from diverse industries, interests and gender, and majority was over the age of 40 with 95 being the oldest.

You must often read the title of a book or a seminar, ‘How to be successful?’, ‘The secret of success?’, ‘Story of a successful entrepreneur’…man, too mainstream!