What Makes a Person Successful?

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        Intrinsic motivation, strong desire, willing to succeed, ambitious personality of a person, and many other personal factors might affect how successful you are in this life. However, according to Griswold (2014), some external factors might also affect your success. 

       First, the month you were born in is crucial. By millions of research done on "relative-age effect," "month of birth bias," or "birth-date effect", it was suggested that people born “right before an annual cutoff date for starting school or sports” tend to be less successful because naturally they are a year younger and physically, emotionally, and intellectually weaker than other members of the group (Griswold, 2014). Another theory in Litvinenko (2012) suggested by numerologists says that the sum of numerals on your date of birth might reveal the sphere where you can be successful in. One of the examples of successful people is Bill Gates, who was born in October, which is a sign of a successful man according to Griswold (2014); according to the theory of numerologists (Litvinenko, 2012) his number is 4, which means that he is good at counting, that might have affected him to become the chairman of Microsoft. Second, are you the eldest, middle, youngest, or the only child in your family? This is also a key factor that affects your success. First – borns tend to be more ambitious, competitive, and leaders, whereas middle children are strong team builders and partners. Youngest children usually perform creative roles, and only children are alike first – borns generally take high positions and have qualities of leaders (Griswold, 2014). Third, according to latest research findings public schools outperform private schools, because public schools are more organized and stricter, whereas private school students already come from wealthy backgrounds and have almost all they want (Griswold, 2014). So, expensive is not always the best. Fourth, which is very interesting is that a student’s performance in math might result in his or her salary (Griswold, 2014). Higher performance in math equals higher salary. Fifth, people from military background are likely to become leaders, because they have excellent management style and are best stayers, they are more likely to endure tough times (Griswold, 2014). Next, good and healthy sleep is also pivotal for success (Griswold, 2014). It is suggested that sleep – deprived people tend to perform worse in comparison to those who sleep well. Are you an early bird or a night owl? Researchers say that early birds outperform night owls, because people who work in the evenings must have bad time management, whereas early birds complete assigned tasks as early as possible and tend to perform better throughout the day (Griswold, 2014). One of the most amazing factors of success is the height of a person – the higher the person the more competitive and commanding he or she seems to be (Griswold, 2014). For instance, Steve Jobs was over six feet tall. Charisma and how good – looking you are also plays an important role in your success path. The more attractive a person, the more people like him or her and the higher chances he or she has to succeed (Griswold, 2014). Research also shows that people who have shorter names or who have shortened their long names tend to become leaders in comparison to those who prefer to stay with their long names (Griswold, 2014). One of the examples is our instructor’s name – Phil instead of Philip.

          To sum up, many of the factors affecting your success are connected to education. So, the role of education in success plays an important role undoubtedly. As we tend  to believe, the more knowledgeable you are the more more successful you will be. But not only education affects our success as you see. So, count your chance rate of success scale. Do you think they work? Research shows they do.

Reference:

Griswold, A. (2014, January 10). 12 Surprising Things That Can Make You Successful. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/things-that-affect-success-2014-1?op=1

Litvinenko, E. (2012, October 1). How birth date affects your chances to make a career (Как дата рождения влияет на шансы сделать карьеру). Retrieved from http://www.segodnya.ua/life/work/Kak-data-rozhdeniya-vliyaet-na-shansy-sdelat-kareru.html