What is it? Is it the same for everyone, or is it different? Most importantly, how do you get it? Success is desired by almost everyone in one form or another. Our society or habitat sometimes helps us become successful, and sometimes doesn't. Why is it that some people always seem to get what they want, with what seems to be like very little effort, at least from the outsider looking in; and others work, and struggle, and eventually conquer, to obtain there success? This topic has many, many attributes to it. It will be impossible for me to speak and link up all of them to produce a formula for success. We all know, what works for some, doesn't for others. So, I decided to break it down into, what I feel are the two main pathways for success. .
I have always been interested in success. I struggled for five years trying to find out what will satisfy my needs for success. I have came to the conclusion that most of the "successful" people in the public eye have acquired it by one of two ways, some an actual combination. In my view, one either becomes successful through hard work, or just plain old god given talent. Now I know, for some it isn't as cut and dry as that. For arguments sake I can only assume that he who has talent does work to expose and promote it, but it is different work than some one who goes through the efforts it takes to over come a lack of talent, and in my opinion that is real work. .
Before I get into the routes for success, I need to define success for the terms of the paper. Success is a very personal thing. If you where to survey a group of random people on weather they felt they were successful or not, you would get many yes's and many no's from people from many different backgrounds, socioeconomically, and very few correlation's could be made. For some people having many children means success for others its money, for others love, and yet others feel no matter what, "they are a winner".