Tien Duy Vu

English 112 - 07

July 7th, 2016

Professor Julia Intawiwat

Final Essay

HOW TO BE SUCCESS?

Success is the goal of our life. We need to set a goal to be success so that we can have a
purpose to work for. But success can be understood in many different ways. It depends on
culture, on personal goal, and on passion. In my project for the whole semester, I have
learned many new aspects about what success is.

First, success can be different for each individual. According to Boris Groysberg and
Robin Abrahams in their article "What Does Success Mean to You?" from Harvard
Business School, we may not realize that we are successful in several aspects in our life,
and should be aware of those. They encourage us to make our professional and personal
wins clear, meaningful, and achievable to ensure the maximum emotional return on our
investment of effort. For the conclusion, they promise to examine further about the

reasons that an objective accomplishment can fail to translate into subjective satisfaction
(Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams). So determining our goal is very important,
before you start to make the first step in our goal. Nowadays, teenagers have very unclear
goals. They dont know what they to be, what they love and what they want to do.
Because they cant make a good goal, they wander around, wasting their time in college.
So I believe setting a reasonable, clear goal is essential before we act.

Another statement that I really like about success, is from Meredith Welch-Devine in his
article "Searching for Success: Defining Success in Co-Management" in Human
organization. The author states that what constitutes "success" is often left undefined, but
in practice, it is clear that different actors have different ways of conceptualizing success.
Then he explains that different definitions of success employed by different stakeholders
in the process stemmed from their different objectives for the project, their differential
experiences of the implementation process. He argues that in order to facilitate more
informed project design and evaluation, we need to be clear in our writings about how
success is defined, whose definition we are using, and how that definition is contested
and negotiated (Meredith Welch-Devine).
Second, when we know what our purpose is, we now make the move. George S. Clason
claims that success means accomplishments as the result of our own efforts and
abilities in his book "The Richest Man in Babylon", published by Robot Check. It
supports my idea that there is no shortcut to success. We have to build it up the best way
we can. The best way to success, determined by Pramod C Kuniyal in his article
"Success: Result of Intention and Learning" on International Journal of Business Ethics

in Developing Economies is the one that I like the most. By learning skills with an
intention, the author believes everyone can be success. It strengthens my point again, that
there is no shortcut to real success.
Finally, when we are on the way to success, we can find that there are keys for us,
something we need to pay attention to that helps us achieve success faster and easier.
Abraham Wandersman shared his four success keys in his article "Four Keys to Success
(Theory, Implementation, Evaluation, and Resource/System Support): High Hopes and
Challenges in Participation" on American Journal of Community Psychology. As we can
see from this articles title, he believes that these are four keys to success in any social
problem area. He claims that these are ideas for solutions that increase the probability of
success. Then, for conclusion, he talks about the need to have high hopes tempered by
theory and research to develop realistically ambitious solutions to social problems.

Overall, we need to understand what success is. Then with intention and passion, success
can be achieved. There are two things we need to keep in mind: there is no shortcut to
success, and we need to find our own keys to open the door to success. With these tools
with us, success can come easier and faster, because we know we are on the right way to
our personal success.

Works cited
Abrahams, Robin, and Boris Groysberg. "What Does Success Mean to You?" Harvard Business
Review. Harvard Business School, 25 Feb. 2014. Web. 20 June 2016.
Clason, George S. "The Richest Man in Babylon" From Robot Check. Bizbuilder.com, 1926.
Web. 15 June 2016.
Kuniyal, Pramod C. "Success: Result of Intention and Learning." International Journal of
Business Ethics in Developing Economies 1.1 (2012): 66-8. ProQuest. Web. 27 June
2016.
Wandersman, Abraham. "Four Keys to Success (Theory, Implementation, Evaluation, and
Resource/System Support): High Hopes and Challenges in Participation." American
Journal of Community Psychology 43.1-2 (2009): 3-21. ProQuest. Web. 27 June 2016.
Welch-Devine, Meredith. "Searching for Success: Defining Success in Co-Management."
Human organization 71.4 (2012): 358-70. ProQuest. Web. 27 June 2016.