Everyone looks up to a successful person. People do not generally question the means that he or she has adopted to attain success in a particular field. They only want to learn a few tips from him so that they can follow them and become as success, if not more. Nothing, indeed, succeeds like success in life.
In trying to emulate the example of a successful person, we often overlook the factors that led to his success. For example, if a person rises above the social strata he was born into, we forget the factors that motivated and inspired him to do, the handicaps be faced on his path to success and the efforts he made to overcome his weaknesses and shortcomings in order to emerge on the top of his chosen vocation in life. What is more, we do not wish to learn of the efforts he is still making in order to retain his present successful position in life. We follow him blindly in whatever he does. In the process, we flatter him and seek favors from him so that his success rules on to us also.
A successful person may be rude, hypocritical and unscrupulous in his day today dealings. He may lack the basic moral and ethical values. But we hero worship such a person without going into the flaws in his character and his weaknesses, for he is the epitome of success to us. He may be a scholar, a scientist, an engineer, a doctor or a management expert. Nothing else matters to us as his success. We forget that he is an individual with his own limitation, he is not a superman. He is an ordinary mortal like us who has made good in life because of some sterling qualities. He must have struggled and failed while climbing the ladder of success. He must have faltered and fallen in his efforts to be successful. Most of us are not concerned with all these things, but what impresses us is his present success. Such a person can do no wrong in our eyes simply because he is successful.
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