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Success is a personal goal that all people aim for in their lives, but not all of them achieve it. However, the detailed definition of success can vary among individuals depending on their personal opinion of success. An example about that, some people see success in hard working individuals, others measure it in how much money people possess and how famous they are. In my opinion, success means a person being good in what she/he wanted to be good in. moreover, there is no self-made individual; there will be always something or someone that helped to shape that person's success. In other words, there are always factors that help people to reach success, even though success still requires self-commitment and dedication. In order for people to be successful, they need to have a growth mindset, that what the psychologist Carol Dweck talked about in her research article "Brinology". In addition, Jonathan Gottschall in his book Storytelling animal talked about how life stories can be one of the good strategies that people can use to being successful. Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers also explained that putting a lot of practice in something can lead to be successful in it. There are many ways people can follow in order to be successful. In short, individuals can be in charge of their success by developing a growth mindset, making a life story, and furthermore facing setbacks.

Developing a growth mindset is a powerful technique that individuals can follow to help them in the way of success. People are not naturally smart they all born with the same brain, but practicing and working hard what made them smarter and more intelligent than their pairs. As Carol Dweck described in her article Brainology, "it is the belief that intelligence can be developed that opens students to a love of learning, a belief in the power of effort and constructive, determined reactions of setbacks" (Dweck 2008, 2). We can apply this to all people not only students. Moreover, having a belief that inelegance can be earned by hard work and not handed to anyone that will stimulate individuals to work harder to be smarter. However, adding water to planets and taking care of them will make them grows faster, and that is the case for people brains, the harder individuals work and they more effort they do, the faster their brains will grow. In addition, Malcolm Gladwell explained the idea of practicing in chapter two of his book Outliers. He talked about "the 10,000 hours rule", and the 10,000 hours in his book represents a lot of practicing and effort which all successful people need to do in order to reach their success. Finally, all people have fixed mindset toward something either because they don't like it or they believe they are not cable to do it, but all of them can change that by putting a lot of work and effort in it so that eventually they will be good at it.

Having a life story and reading successful people lives stories is another good strategy can be used to make a success. Furthermore, making a life story can help individuals for a better understanding of their lives goals and see their weakness points in order to fix them. In addition, reading about successful people lives stories can help individuals to learn more from them and gain a better understanding of success. However, Jonathan Gottschall in her book storytelling animals described life story as a "Personal myth", so it's not totally true, but even though people can learn lessons from it. "Memoirists don’t tell true stories; they tell "truthy" ones" (Gottschall 2012, 161). In short, life story can be useful for people who want success because it teaches them valuable lessons from other people experiences even if the life story's details are not completely true.

In addition to developing a growth mindset and having a life story, facing setbacks is an essential strategy for people in order to reach goals. Furthermore, all people will face setbacks in some points of their lives; if they quit after a setback, then they will never accomplish their goals. In short, quitting after a setback won't create success. However, People with growth mindset have the ability to face setbacks, learn from their mistakes, and developed new and different ways to go throw any difficulties in their lives, and that is one of the biggest success requirements. In contrast, fixed mindset people quit after setbacks because the thing this is the limit of their ability and they won't be able to accomplish anything beyond that point, "they believe that their fixed ability may not be up to the task" (Dweck 2008, 1). Last but not least, learning from failing is a good way to discover new and creative ideas about how to deal with life difficulty and make a person stronger in the face of setbacks. Finally one can say, individuals need to train themselves to face setbacks and to learn lessons from their mistakes instead of quitting and that is essential to bullied success in any field in life.

Developing a Growth mindset, facing setbacks, and having a life story are important techniques that cooperate with many other factors to achieve success in any goal in life. In my opinion, the idea of being able to reach success what really makes a person successful, and people not who decide whether an individual is successful or not it is the person idea of him/her-self. Never forget to mention, there are factors that help some people to be more successful than others like the place and the time they were born in, but still people can be successful by planning and working hard for their goals. However, people will is the biggest role that they need to reach success, "when there is a will there is a way". In short, the more energy and effort individuals put in something; the closest they will become from achieving it.