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Attitude is everything

Ms. V. Subashri: A post-graduate in the field of computer science, working as a software professional for more than a decade. On the other hand, she has a passion for
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famous saying goes like this.‘ Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything’. In order to be successful in life, we just have to remember these lines. Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, who is part of top 5 people in‘ three-comma club’ is known for his attitude. A college dropout emerged as a successful entrepreneur due to his sheer self-belief and commitment and obviously the positive attitude he had. Later, when Facebook became so very famous and made him the youngest billionaire, his attitude never changed. Through his Chan-Zuckerberg initiative, he has pledged to spend 99 % of wealth acquired through FB to philanthropy! This can be the best case study that we can quote while we talk about the attitude when one has everything.
Students, software engineers, cricketers, scientists everyone have their own episodes of failures. Not all emerge successful overnight. It is attitude that defines us. As a software engineer, I have come across people with variety of behaviors which I would broadly categorize as- Extremely committed to work Vs. Extremely funfilled and not so serious towards work and Extremely planned Vs. Working with a vague or not so worthy plans
These two categories are complimenting one another. Those who are extremely committed to work will do proper planning and come up successful. Those who are less serious about the work and its outcome do planning for name sake and end up messing up things