What Is Success

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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” said (Bill Cosby So why not listen to a speech from two of the most successful people in America Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey at one of the most prosperous colleges in America Harvard. Success is one of the most sought after things in the world but it can come with inconveniences like failures, barriers and heavy stress. Oprah Winfrey (2014) stated “Failure is life trying to move you in another direction”. This quote supports my main point of success can come with heavy stress. Everyone makes mistakes but if you repeat the same mistake you are not learning from it and before you can get to the next move in your life you have to learn from your mistakes quick as possible. It is very normal and human like to make a mistake but to keep repeating the same mistake over and over again you will get nowhere in life. That’s why when Oprah stated “Learn from every mistake and know your next move”, (Oprah 2012) it was like a blueprint to success because if you follow those steps you will most likely be successful. You can look it up online to see what job positions are most need but what Oprah is saying in this quote “ Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive” (Oprah 2012). Find what drives you and pursue that because it is easier and more enjoyable to do something you like rather than something that you don’t like. Walls and obstacles are almost guaranteed on a path to success but (Bill Gates 2013) pronounced “The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity”. There is a lot of complexity in the world today but what does it matter the color of the persons skin or background. When a child is born out of a low income family, nothing
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