While going through different
articles related to factors which effect success an idea came into my mind to
shed some light on different important facorts which should always remain in
focus whenever we discuss factors effecting success.
Underneath is my speculation on these important factors, in which I have tried
to explain that being innately talented is not the only factor which helps a
person to achieve success or become successful in the long run of life there are
a number of other factors which are required to have a successful life.Let’s
have a look at it;
Successful people in every field are often said to be "blessed with talent" or
even just lucky.
But the truth is, many worked harder than the average person can even imagine.
While pondering upon this topic, I came to the conclusion that in order to be
successful talent is not the only requirement. We all know so many talented
people around us. A gifted athlete, an eloquent orator, and a God gifted artist
or a writer who is not always successful or achieve great things as he is never
given a chance by his luck to show up his talent or he has never worked hard to
use his talents to fulfill his dreams.
In contrast to this we have witnessed so many people in our lives who do not
have much talent or according to our dictionary, they are people with mediocre
talent, touch the pinnacle of success just because of their continuous hard work
and belief in their self.
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Being highly talented is not the only criteria to get success. Your talent only
helps you in making a choice, all what you need to achieve your aim is, hard
work.
Take the example of Bill Gates.
Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and
starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called
Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating
the global empire that is Microsoft.
There is another example of a famous inventor,
Thomas Edison: In his early years, teachers told Edison he was “too stupid to
learn anything.” Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for
not being productive enough. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful
attempts at inventing the light bulb. Of course, all those unsuccessful attempts
finally resulted in the design that worked.
There is a list of names in the history which prove the importance of hard work
for success.
So to be successful, one of the keys is to have Belief in oneself and in the
Almighty Lord. It is the belief in oneself and what they are attempting to
accomplish that sees them through.
Passion is another factor which helps to attain the desired goal.I can honestly
say that I have never met a person of great achievement, or even one who I
believe someday will achieve greatness, who has not possessed a bounty of
passion. This “fire within” sustains people to continue, never giving up their
hopes and dreams. Without it, they may have quit or moved on to something else
where they would have been merely average. Passion provides them energy and will
power to work long hours.
Than Perseverance and ability to sustain the hard work until the job is done is
another factor which is required to achieve success.
Successful people finish things. They never give up. They know there is no
success without it.
And one most important thing in this connection that we should never forget
that, it was the reward of Belief, Hard work, Passion and Perseverance which
made Prophet Muhammed SAW successful in winning the hearts of crude people of
Arabia and with the help of these factors he was able to spread the message of
Allah SWT in the world.
Here I’m concluding this article with the quotation of a famous author Patrick
Süskind and leave the decision on my readers to think how far they agree with my
point of view.
“...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard
work, means everything.”