POSITIVE THINKING AND THE ENVIRONMENT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FACTORS ON PEOPLE SUCCESS

Do you remember who you learnt mathematic from? From whom did you learnt an alphabet that made you know how to read now? No one is born knowing all these. People know things because there has been somebody who taught them about it. People usually do not realize that they learn something because there was somebody who inspired and who facilitated their learning. People can achieve their goals and become successful because of the surroundings which ease their way to achieve their goals and success. And those surroundings are people psychosis which inferred to be self-confidence and the environment around the person which will bring people mentality up to success.

               

The first significant factor leading people to success is positive thinking. To start with, it is impossible for one person to be success without any struggle. Conversely, people have to make some struggles by overcoming the obstacles and the problems that they face. Therefore, positive thinking  which is coming from people’s mind, is the most important requirement for people to be succesful. It makes people believe in themselves that they can achieve whatever they want. Because, when people desire to be success they tend to believe in themselves and always working for it. So, this means people are forced to struggle in order to actualize their believes and dreams. Hence, in one of his articles, Tracy argues that one of the spirits leading to success is to believe and think positively about yourself (2012). Thus, believe and positive thinking is the most important step for people’s success. Apart from the belief, people also should have a desire to be successful, for this they have to believe that they are able to reach what they desire for. Without any belief, it is impossible for people to achieve their goals. Positive people know that they have to improve their skills in order to be successful, and the only way to improve their skill is by doing the action repeatedly or make their activities as their habits (Tracy,B 2012). Beside, these people who think positively, are not afraid to fail. Thus even if they fail, they do not give up and most importantly, do not feel discourage to try again. Thus, in order to be successful, people should absolutely think positively and they should not be discouraged by failer but try to repeat the action until the achieved. Just as one said that ‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, ..., is not an act, but a habit’ (Brainyquote, 2001). The interpretation of the quote is; the more people striving on one thing, the more expert they will be on it.

                Social environment is another fundamental aspect influencing people’s success. It starts from the smallest group of social life which is family. Family has a big capacity effecting people’s life, in terms of success or failure. Because discipline is highly demanded for success, and discipline itself is not innate but taught by family. Moreover, there are numerous statements agreeing that family is very important, and that people who came from a harmonious family has a bigger advantage to be success than people who don’t (Mormon, 2012). For example; Thomas Alfa Edison the inventor of lamp. He finally invent the lapms after hundreds of experiments, he invented the lamps not only by himself, otherwise there is an appropriate environment supporting him, and it includes the family and all the people who was beside him at that time. Moreover, Albert Einstein  claimed that ‘The environment is everything that isn't me’ (Brainyquote, 2001). It can be inferred that success comes not only from people themselves, but also there must be an environment which would encourage and support people to achieve their goal.

                However oppenents argue that gene is the most important matter leading to success than positive thinking and the environment. They believe in genetic predisposition because evidence shows that successful parents have successful children. Hence, they believe this on account of the inherited intelligence. Conversely, they claimed that if their parents are not successful people, chlidren also will not be successful in life (Levy,A 2013). It may be true that some successful parents have successful children. However, the argument that genes make people more successful might not be true. The intelligence of children due to intelligent parents might come not from the genes, but from the fact that intelligent parents are aware of the importance of the environment, especially family environment, and thus these parents might sufficiently support, encourage and motivate their children in the right way. Thus, not genes, but the environment is the cause for the child’s intelligence, and consequently, for the childs succeed in life. Besides, if parents don’t care sufficiently about child’s condition, it is impossible for the child to be successful even if his parents are intelligent. Therefore, not the genes, but the environment plays a crucial role to build people’s characteristic required for success.

In conclusion, as it has been argued, positive thinking and the environment plays a fundamental role on people’s success, because when people keep themselves think positively they can work and struggle on their dream more and also if they face some obstacles they would be more powerful to overcome it, on account of their beliefs in themselves. And normally, they would become these stong people because of their environment. Their environment is those who bring up their successful characteristic, which will help them to be success. Therefore, in order to be success, people have to set an appropriate environment for themselves and they have to think positively in themselves.

                                                                                                                       Camlica, 14-January-2014
                                                                                                                      Muhammad Haykal