Factors That Favor and Factors That Overcome

In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell carefully discusses many factors that lead to success and some that lead to failure. I suggest that you read the book to get more insight.

However, while I agree with Gladwell that some factors in individuals lives often work as advantages that favor those individuals, persistence, desire, and confidence are factors that can overcome those disadvantages for those people who are unfortunate not to have been born at the right time or may not have had the right breaks or best leadership.

On the other hand, even with the advantages that Gladwell describes, true success is usually only possible when ushered in by persistence, desire, confidence, and hard work. Just having the best timing or being in the right place at the right time is not enough for sustained success. Having those hard work factors in your favor will insure you some kind of success.

Often, success can be measured by balance in your life. You really don't need a lot of advantages to work toward balance. You need persistence, desire, hard work, confidence and other attributes usually associated with success.