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The success in life (personal/professional) is like a roller coaster ride. At the start there are always signs that tell you that you must be this tall to enter or when there are flashy lights people with epilepsy are told not to enter. You must fulfill these conditions to be allowed to enter, there is no other option - if you don't fulfill these prerequisites it's over before it even began. These prerequisites are intelligence and good looks when it comes to success.
Of course someone who meets all these prerequisites sometimes fails to get to the roller coaster ride in the end. There is a waiting line before the ride begins - you have to have some discipline and patience in order to make progress and be allowed to enter in the end. If you try to jump the queque for example you may be removed from the ride or get placed back at the beginning and sometimes people just get lost and don't find the entrance, others that meet all the prerequisites are sometimes not even interested in doing a roller coaster ride.
The same thing goes for positive traits (=prerequisites of success in life); you have to polish the raw diamond of genetically determined traits (looks, intelligence) with discipline, effort and hard work (studying, going to the gym) to get the best possible outcome (success). Of course this means that there is work to do, but to really get anywhere you have to meet the prerequisites beforehand. You can polish shit all day long and it won't turn into gold. The basis for success (talent; good looks; intelligence) has to exist beforehand, otherwise no will/discipline is hard enough, these conscious things only matter if there is something to work with in the first place. These positive traits are the key to success and turning a key requires some effort, but without a key you get to go nowhere. "A poor craftsman blames his tools" is something you like to say, but would you do a Mt. Everest expedition in a bikini?
Of course someone who meets all these prerequisites sometimes fails to get to the roller coaster ride in the end. There is a waiting line before the ride begins - you have to have some discipline and patience in order to make progress and be allowed to enter in the end. If you try to jump the queque for example you may be removed from the ride or get placed back at the beginning and sometimes people just get lost and don't find the entrance, others that meet all the prerequisites are sometimes not even interested in doing a roller coaster ride.
The same thing goes for positive traits (=prerequisites of success in life); you have to polish the raw diamond of genetically determined traits (looks, intelligence) with discipline, effort and hard work (studying, going to the gym) to get the best possible outcome (success). Of course this means that there is work to do, but to really get anywhere you have to meet the prerequisites beforehand. You can polish shit all day long and it won't turn into gold. The basis for success (talent; good looks; intelligence) has to exist beforehand, otherwise no will/discipline is hard enough, these conscious things only matter if there is something to work with in the first place. These positive traits are the key to success and turning a key requires some effort, but without a key you get to go nowhere. "A poor craftsman blames his tools" is something you like to say, but would you do a Mt. Everest expedition in a bikini?
