This discussion is based on the factors, influences and motives to becoming successful in all aspects of life, socially and financially. It focuses on what drives people to reach significant heights of greatness in life. What makes them different from the average person, and what sets the benchmark between success and failure in one’s life. It also looks at what rules and principals contribute to their personal and financial success. What is success? Success can be defined as the accomplishments of an aim or purpose. One must be willing to risk a lot in order to achieve a goal or target set upon oneself. Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich, 2000) suggest that every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his bridges and cut of all sources of …show more content…
Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as the burning desire to win. (Think and grow rich, Page 41) states that “no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.... our only limitations are those that we set upon ourselves.” These ideas on what drives people to reach significant height of greatness are primarily based on the mindset of the individual. There is a saying that goes “he who says he can and he who says he can’t, are both usually right.” This was quoted by Will Smith. Some influences and motives to success by Dr Viktor E.Frankl (Man’s Search For Meaning, 2008) suggests that success is driven by having a purpose in one’s life, or striving to find a meaning in personal existence, which he calls the will to meaning. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how” (Page 84). In further detail this saying is