What does it take to be successful? There is a lot of factors that go into being successful, but it all depends on your definition of success. Success is the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. People don't become successful overnight, they put in hard work to reach their desired goals. In order to be a successful person people must put in effort in what they are doing, making the right choices, dedication, and being well educated.
Effort is defined as a vigorous or determined attempt. People don't wake up and become successful over night, it takes hard work and dedication. Dedication is to devote wholly and earnestly, as to some person or purpose. Everybody wishes they could be successful just like that but that is not how the real world works out. Do you think people in the streets were successful at what they did? The chances are not high. Maybe they were. They didn't put enough time into what they did. Students do it all the time even with major assignments. We don't put the time and effort that the assignment or task requires. Authors don't write their books in 1 day they take months maybe even years! They put in effort to make quality work and don't throw random stuff together. Success isn't handed to people on a silver platter they put in effort to get where they are at.
Doing the right thing at the right time at the right place...A choice is the right, power, or opportunity to choose. Making the right choices are the key factor to success. If people fall into peer pressure they might end up ruining their life. If someone is telling a person to smoke weed or drink alcohol most likely the person will do it because of peer pressure. They need to know that listening to your friend isn't the best choice for a persons future. The right choices matter.
Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. Without education there would be no such thing as a "successful" person, people can't just walk into a doctors office and decide they're going to apply for a job as a doctor there, you need to be specially educated in the medical field, the same applies to any good higher class job. The vast majority of higher paid income workers have learned about their profession and worked hard in school fully understand and educate themselves to be successful at what they want to become. These days Americans are starting to value education less, so many teenagers drop out each year and automatically decrease their chances of becoming something of themselves, education isn't appreciated until the comparison shows how third world countries can't afford to get an education but long for one, as opposed to a first world country where getting educated from the moment you are 4 years old to the moment you graduate at about 18 years old is free and taken for granted.
In the long run people have to have all the qualities in order to be successful which are to put in effort, making the right choices, dedication, and education.