Chapter-3: Responsibilities, Goals and Success
Outline of Article:
- Introduction
- The Fifth Dynamic Part for Learning and Studying
- The Six Factors of Success
- What is Success?
- The View of Life from Honesty
- The View of Life from Blame
- Conclusion
- Thank you
Introduction
The aim of this article is to provide an approximate answer to the question: What is Success? However, the context of success in this article is being explored within the domain of learning and studying, which is connected to the overall arching theme of my book, How Does Studying Work?
Full transparency, my outline of reasoning for this article, follows: first, exploration of the general factors of success; second, provide an approximate model that relates these factors of success in some meaningful way; third, clarify two viewpoints in life, which are through practice of honesty and blame.
The Fifth Dynamic Part Needed for Learning and Studying:
What is Success?
There tends to be heated disagreement when it comes to recognizing success in life. Often, individuals judge others in haste and declare them to be lacking success—without even considering a person’s goals or motivations in life. In truth, accomplishing the general responsibilities of purpose from evolution can be carried out in numerous ways. Hence, being successful in life can also be accomplished in numerous ways.
More to the point, although the final product of success may look different from individual to individual, there are six main factors that establish success, which are: honesty, motivation, responsibility, goals, individual limits and blame minimization.
The First factor of success: Honesty.
Success begins with a person’s free-will practice of honesty. Though a critical distinction is needed here, each person must be skilled in two aspects within the practice of honesty: intrapersonal and interpersonal. Specifically, it all starts from within: intrapersonal honesty. Serving as a keystone foundational block, a person must always be honest with themselves and their surroundings. This is because all success depends on accurately collected information from reality. As such, if a person is unable to lift the truth of reality, then results in adaptation in life, in a positive deliberate manner, will be diminished.
The second factor of success: Motivation.
Success is also directly dependent on motivation. Moving hand in hand with honesty, motivation is the ability to use free-will in a deliberate manner in movement by choice. In particular, this means that each person must be honest with their expectations, their values and their willpower development in life—in order to increase their positive adaptations within reality.
Recall, motivation is the product of expectation, value, and willpower. A critical observation here is that motivation is not dependent on feeling good, feeling inspired, feeling certain about outcomes or feeling pleasure.
Basically, in order for an individual to think, to act, to persist, to endure discomfort, to feel anything, to do anything, to plan, to create any change in life, a person must have nonzero motivation. In other words, motivation is the free-will ability to choose to expect, to choose to value and to choose to use willpower (to choose to act in a participatory manner with reality).
The third factor of success: Goal.
Success is directly dependent on a target—which means having a goal. This is a crucial aspect of success. The accomplishment of success will never be fixed in a specific manner without a specific goal to achieve or to pursue. Meaning that, to be successful will always be dependent on an individual’s specific free-will targets or objectives in life, goals.
For instance, the pursuit of owning a million-dollar home may be a metric of success for one person; but it may be a metric of weakness or a waste of time for someone else. And, both individual perspectives would be correct because success is a very individual, and a very specific aspect of personal free-will in life. Therefore, the only person that can assess the measure of personal success in life, will be the individual. The person that has used their free-will to choose a specific, personal, relevant goal in their life.
The fourth factor of success: Responsibility.
Success is directly dependent on responsibility. Not to be confused with any of the other factors of success, responsibility is dependent on relevant and timely action. Meaning, it is dependent on accomplishing the correct requirements to achieve a chosen goal in life. Moreover, as stated earlier, all responsibilities are connected with one or more of the five responsibilities of purpose from evolution.
The fifth factor of success: Blame.
Success is inversely proportional with blame. In other words, this means that any increase in blame will decrease a person’s ability to be successful. Emphasis must be placed here, this states that to be successful, in anything, a person must minimize their blame in as many aspects of their life as possible.
Indeed, such is the exponential diminishing power of blame, that if left unchecked, deliberate success for a goal can drop to zero with even the slightest breath of blame. This is because blame rejects reality, rejects responsibilities and rejects individual free-will to adapt and to choose, and to be accountable for one’s thoughts, beliefs, emotions and actions in life. Learning from and acknowledging from one’s mistakes is empowering. To blame is to stop: it weakens.
The sixth factor of success: Individual Limits.
Success is also dependent on individual limits. Meaning that success is not an instantaneous practice. A more accurate description is that success requires time, growth over time and honest effort within individual limits.
The key idea here is that a person’s pursuit of success in a chosen area of life occurs within boundaries. For instance, the goal of gaining 100 pounds of muscle mass in two hours is not how individual limits of growth work. Hence, honest acceptance of starting individual limits is critical to success.
5. What is Success?
Success is the free-will of life to accomplish or to progress in accomplishing a chosen goal during life span development in the universe; and it varies inversely with blame as it varies directly with the product of motivation, goal, and responsibility. In symbolic form, letting S = success, M = motivation, r = responsibility, g = goal, B = blame and t = current upper limit of responsibility, then an approximate model of success in a person’s life is:
One of the first aspects to notice about these two equations is the indirect use of honesty. That is, a factor of honesty is not directly stated. This is because honesty and blame can occur for the exact same thing, with the skill of cognitive dissonance. Meaning, a human being can easily believe that something is their fault and that it is also not their fault. Therefore, the most critical aspect to measure and to manage in life is the dramatic influence blame will have on any level of success. Meaning that, a decrease in blame results from an increase in honesty with reality. While an increase in blame results from a decrease of honesty acceptance of reality.
Of course, hardships happen in life: accidents happen, the weather happens, natural disasters happen, life happens, and death happens.
Now, a person can choose to view these hardships with honesty or with blame.
The view with Honesty: The practice of honesty will acknowledge and accept these hardships of life. However, the practice of honesty does not stop life. Honesty continues to move, to adapt and to live toward better states of being, regardless of starting or developing or diminishing states of being. The practice of honesty admits all positive; and the practice of honesty admits all pain, suffering, unfairness and tragedy of life. Though, more importantly, the practice of honesty realizes that life does not owe you any guarantee of anything in life. There are no guarantees of outcome in life, aside from death and taxes.
The view with Blame: The practice of blame rejects the hardships of life. Blame expects and demands a positive guaranty throughout all life. Blame only values the joy, the pleasure and the happiness of life. Hence, blame rejects reality and the reality of being human. To be human is to be completely enveloped in evolution. Evolution occurs when hardships are faced and met with the free-will to advance in life, no matter what the current state life may, and will find itself in.
Conclusion
In summary, the process of being successful involves the motivated pursuit of responsibilities and goals. And, in order to accomplish these two main objectives, a person must produce the required free-will of choice at each point along the pursuit of success.
Moreover, a person must always guard against the temptation to slip into the practice of blame. Although tempting to dismiss setbacks with blame, this practice will hinder a person’s success. Expressed in another way, blame is the relinquishing of a person’s purpose, responsibility, accountability and growth in life. As such, blame is a very deadly practice in any area of life.
Lastly, success can also be viewed as a skill, since motivation is involved. Meaning that, accomplishing smaller goals builds up a person’s ability and honesty to achieve greater and heavier goals in life, which translates into greater personal success. Therefore, the process of success depends on gaining momentum and developing growth over time from any given point in life. In other words, to be successful in life is to be dependent on being consistent with deliberate honest work. Of most importance, it does not matter so much where a person starts; only that a person starts to walk the path of change to become personally successful.
Thank You
I appreciate your time in reading my blog post. Next Monday I will upload the first part of Chapter-4: The Learning Process, from my self-development book, How Does Studying Work?
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