I wonder, which factor should serve as the crucial one for the success? If I cannot gain the success I indeed chase for, which one should be blame for, capability, self-confidence, or even hard-work? After all, I always believe in such kind of words, the god says you can get everything, but you should pay for it. Or, it should be attributable to less paid for the god.
Admittedly, hard working is the first word we learned since childhood for success. From the very beginning we entered school, this word was introduced in via the famous inventor Edison, and it is also the attitude the teacher wanted to impart to us. After that, we started our journey in the kingdom of knowledge. Every time we gain great marks, our teachers' praise would never miss such kind of words——he/she works hard. When feeling depressed after having terrible grades, we often consoled ourselves to work harder in the next turn.
However, there always exists such kind of peers in the classes throughout our whole lives. They never complain about teachers' complicated assignments which everyone except them must solve them overnight. Also, they often spent less time than other persons around them to finish a test, and in most cases, they won the first one in an easy way. Are they better than I? How big is the difference between us, and what can I do to improve myself? Those questions urge us to re-evaluate both them and ourselves. Definitely, at first, we recognize them as liars, since that it does not correspond with the concept we received at the first day we enrolled in school. As time goes by, their behaviors proved that they really put less time on school works, but would like to play games or watch TV programs. Such phenomena astonished us and challenged the concept teachers told us——hard-work is the major point for success.
Therefore, the word-- 'gifted children'-- comes into our mind. They own quick-mind, more innovative ideas and much more critical-thinking than any other peers. Within the same facilities and conditions, those gifted children might have more achievements and thus make the society progress. Besides, we realized that we were misled by teachers on Edison's words. Inspiration which Edison put much emphasis on, is neglected by our guiders, who want us to have a positive attitude in our school works. Although people would not be willing to acknowledge the difference between people's capability, it becomes damaging scars in our minds to explain why they can achieve, but we cannot. It is too depressed to confront with such kind of conclusion, though ordinary people still work hard in order to making up for the deficiency in the capability.
What's more, individuals are defeated by those 'gifted children’ (or outstanding persons), within the growing process continues, which depressed us more and more, thus hurt our self-confidence repeatedly. We never want to admit our failure, but it does exist. After all, wherever we go, there always exist some people who are superior. We try to adjust our mindset, our behavior to suit those conditions and attempt to learn from them, including their analyzing ways and their problem-solving methods. As the saying goes, the largest competitor is from our soul, but not outside world. In most of the time, we fight for ourselves and also fight with ourselves.
Overlapping those factors--hard-working, capability and self-confidence, I'm confused. I recognize their irreplaceable positions in every individuals' achievement, but how can we judge their functions, how to arrange them into one, two, three, I'm confused. In other word, if we attempt to chase for our goals, but failed, how can we decide to go on or give up? It is determined by our hearts or our capabilities, I'm confused. Or perhaps, it is only the examination from god to certify the degree of individuals' persistance for a goal he/she is really eager to attain, I'm confused.
Is it the truth as ADIDAS claimed——nothing is impossible, I'm confused.