Question by Arctic: Do you think that most successful people display success at an early age?
Early as in lets say before the age of 20. I was reading the story of Richard Branson who flunked out of high school but is now a billionaire and some billionaires who had tough childhoods and faced struggles where people did not think they would at all be successful. Then I see kids in today’s world who win contests and show intelligence at an early age and people say “oh you know he is going to be someone great”.
Which do you think is more common among successful and influential people and why:
1. They go through struggles and at a time or two may have some sort of a setback or something people say about them like “he won’t be anyone great” or they suffer through struggles in early life like not doing the best in high school.
2. They go through life with great grades and society always says “you know he will be successful”.
Best answer:
Answer by J.Esteban37
I know you wont like this answer but it depends. Who are you talking about business people, athletes, celebrities? If you’re a pro soccer player, at an early age people would notice you have a future. A business person, it can take you a while to get your big breakthrough.
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Hah. I displayed artistic talent at 4, started piano at 9 and got top grade level in 3 years, got highest mark in French Immersion in my elementary school class and beat the native french speaking kids, got A’s on my report cards. displayed exceptional english writing skills such as poetry and novel writing in highschool, also was one of the leading first violins in the school orchestras, got to the finals in my entire school speech contest, had a 4.0 gpa all the way to the end of highschool, was actually one of the leading thinker and intellectual in the grade (along with about 2-3 others)….
but what have I ended up becoming? Just a piece of nothing. If I graduate, I will probably end up with a job that I never expected since I was told to study sciences which was something I was not passionate about. i coudl have spent that time working damn hard in music or something and I would have been a concert pianist touring the world right now. now my piano is rusty from lack of practice, i haven’t drawn something in a long while, etc. And now people are treating me as if I’m a piece of servant who should be owned and told what to do and told to do degrading job work?
Uttering disappointing. Completely disappointing.
Here’s a guide that can help.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Believe-in-yourself-and-you-will-succeed
Have you ever heard of the marshmallow test?