Professor Weatherly
ENG 111
30 April 2014
Successfulness
Being successful in today’s society is not often easy but with hard work and dedication it definitely can be accomplished. Striving to achieve, driving until the goal has been reached, finding out the secrets, achieving a great career or job, being able to properly being able to interact with others, and the ability to read and work with technology are all key factors to being a successful person. Many people have different ways to how they will strive and reach their goal of their chosen career or job to make them successful in life. People drive to be successful to better their living in today’s world. Successful people tend to encourage others and give advice of their secrets and strategies of becoming a successful person. There are a variety of careers and jobs out there in today’s world that can classify a person’s successfulness. Being able to interact with others and knowing how to communicate well can play a role in person successfulness. If a person doesn’t know how to communicate and be able to interact with other it can be weakness in their career or job if involves working with others. Last but not least a person’s ability to read and work with technology can help within a person’s career. A discussion amongst these ways of being successful will be displayed throughout the essay. Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld wrote in a newspaper article, “What Drives Success?” about the drive for successfulness according to ethnicity, religion and particular group that a person may belong to. “It may be taboo to say it, but certain ethnic, religious and national-origin groups are doing strikingly better than Americans overall”(Chua and Rubenfeld). Success is taught to all people from a young age. “A seemingly un-American fact about America today is that for some groups, much more than others, upward mobility and the American dream are alive and well”(Chua and Rubenfeld). In today’s