The Real Meaning of Success

            What is Success? If we are able to learn from the many failures we experience throughout life, and do things differently we have found a clear path to success. Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and Stephen King; what do all these people have in common? The answer is that they are successful, but they were not at first. Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity Basketball team at his school his sophomore year. Stephen Kings first novel was rejected by publishers a jaw dropping 30 times!Last but not least, Bill Gates one of the richest most polarizing figures in America failed when he tried to launch his first company. All that aside I believe that success means different things to different people. One person who graduates college and is not able to find a job right away might believe that they have failed to achieve their goal. On the other hand someone else will believe they are successful just by graduating. However success that stems from failure is the most intriguing to me. Perhaps one of the most significant examples of a failure that translates to success is how the current United States were formed. The United States are the product of the failure of the articles of confederation. The founding fathers could have given up after the first attempt did not work, but instead they chose to pin point the weaknesses of the articles of confederation and perfect them. After living by the articles of confederation for half a decade, the states knew the Articles were not going to cut it. They needed a more effective more powerful government, one that could be spread out to reach all the states. The result of this realization was in the year 1786, the Annapolis Convention was delivered. Since their were so few representatives however, they had to bring together a larger group. this was known as the Constitutional Convention. Annapolis Convention Resolution states, " that body decided to create an entirely new form of government around a new constitution, drafting the U.