The success theory
Following are true four stories:
Story -1:
Mr. A got a chance to sit for a recruitment test of a company. The first round was written and was to check candidate’s technical skills. Mr. A, along with his friend Mr. B, went for the test. Mr. A knew that he is not good in technical skills but Mr. B is good. So he decided to sit behind Mr. B. Mr. A intelligently copied all the answers marked by Mr. B. luckily Mr. A cleared the technical test and got a phone call for the next interview round. Mr. A intelligently prepared his documents and reported for the interview round. The first interview round was to test technical and logical skills. Mr.A was good in logical but not in technical. In interview round the interviewer asked two three questions on technical skills which were luckily in the knowledge of Mr. A. So Mr. A answered them easily. Again luckily, interviewer switched to logical questions skipping the technical ones. Mr. A was good in logical skills. So he intelligently answered all the answers with confidence. Mr. A cleared the test and was sent for the next round. Mr. A got the chance to give his next round just after few minutes and before other candidates who were waiting from hours for the same only due to his luck factor. Mr. A handled this situation intelligently and cleared the second round which was a simple verbal round. Mr. A submitted the documents and got the offer letter on the same day without any further delay as that of other candidates.
Story-2:
Mr. B from whom Mr. A copied the test was good in technical skills but there were other candidates who were more skilled then Mr. B but luckily most of the options marked by Mr. B of which he was unsure were correct and he scored more than the other candidates who were more talented than him. The luck played its role in a positive way for Mr. B and now it was time for Mr. B to put intelligent hard work. Mr. B reported for the interview. The first round was the same as described before, a both technical and logical round. The interviewer asked the questions which were in the knowledge of Mr. B but Mr. B failed to answer them intelligently as he answered with low confidence and exposed his other weakness too. Instead of driving the interviewer to the field where he is strong, he himself carried him to the fields where he is weak. The interviewer attacked on his weakness and Mr. B can’t keep it up for a long time. Even though Mr. B knew many of the answers and was much good then Mr. A but he failed to act intelligently which lead to his failure in the interview.
Story -3:
Mr. C is good n technical, logical and other required skills. He too has applied for the same test. Mr. C cleared the written test using his technical skills without using his luck as he was brilliant in technical skills. Mr. C cleared the test and got a call for the interview round. Mr. C reported on time for interview. The first interview was again same as described before. Mr. C answered all the questions with a good confidence and without exposing any field in which he is weak. Mr. C cleared the round one and was sent for the next round. Unluckily, Mr. C was asked to wait for the second round and Mr. C waited for hours and then he was asked to come tomorrow as the clock has reached the closing time of office. Mr. C arrived again tomorrow sincerely for the interview round 2 but our Mr. C was unlucky again. He got the news that today the main HR manager is absent and he has to wait until another HR manger is free. Mr. C patiently waited from morning and at the evening they called him for the next interview .Mr. C cleared the next round too with some intelligent answers. Mr. C submitted the documents but again they found some problem in his documents. He was asked to submit all correct documents as soon as possible for his offer letter. Mr. C worked for a day and prepared all his documents correctly and again reported to the company with correct documents. Mr. C submitted the documents but he had reported on a wrong day. The HR manager was absent so he was told that offer letter will be emailed. Mr. C was waiting for the email and on the other side a confusion was waiting for him from the company side. As a result of this confusion Mr. C got a call for a telephonic interview round for round two from the company. But as Mr. C knew he has already cleared round 2 so he was completely unaware of the call is a telephonic interview round. They were questioning him to select him but he was answering as he is already selected with a mindset that company is just making some general enquiry to release his offer letter. Whereupon a confusion happened in this interview round and our unaware Mr. was rejected.
Story-4:
Mr. D was good in technical, verbal and logical skills. He too has applied for the same company. Mr. D has cleared the written test using only his technical skills as he was good in it. He too got a call for an interview. But Mr. D was working and was very busy with some important work at that time. So he failed to attend the call and Mr. D lost the chance to even attend the interview without being tested.
Deducing success theory from above incidents:
Deduction from story -1:
From the case of Mr. A it can be seen that how intelligently Mr. A worked by copying the test from Mr. B and how lucky he was that Mr. B’s unsure answers were correct. Again good luck followed him in his interview as interviewer skipped technical round and asked logical questions which were answered intelligently by him thereafter luck played its role again by giving him a chance before other pending candidates. Thus it can be observed that Mr. A paid a value in terms of luck and intelligent hard work to achieve success. Thus it can be deduced from the case of Mr. A that every success has a value and one can only pay this value in terms of intelligent hard work and luck.
So
Value(success) = value(intelligent hard work) + value(luck);
Deduction from story-2:
In the case of Mr. B the value of luck was good as his unsure answers were correct. His luck gave him a chance but he showed no intelligent hard work. Thus it can be conclude that value of luck itself alone can’t make it to the value of success. There has to be always a value of intelligent hard work and it can never be zero.
So,
Value(intelligent hard work) ≠0;
Thus
(Value(success) = value(intelligent hard work) + value(luck))&& (Value(intelligent hard work) ≠0);
Deduction from story-3:
Now examining the case of Mr. C it can be observed that value (luck) was very low which lead to a large increase in value of intelligent hard work and Mr. C tried to pay it but finally missed it. If he has acted intelligently and prepared all his documents correctly, his offer letter would have released on the current day and the unlucky incident of confusion could have been avoided. Thus lower is the luck factor, greater is the value of the intelligent hard work is required and vice-versa. Thus value of intelligent hard work is inversely proportional to the value of success.
So
Value(intelligent hard work) α 1/value(luck);
Thus
(Value(success) = value(intelligent hard work) + value(luck))&& (Value(intelligent hard work)≠ 0)&&( Value(intelligent hard work) α 1/value(luck));
Deduction from story-4:
Now examining the case of Mr. D we will find that he even did not got a chance to show his intelligent hard work due to unlucky incident of not attending the phone call. So the case of Mr. D is same as that of a candidate who was not eligible for an entrance exam due to not fulfilling the eligibility criteria of minimum marks a student must have in his senior secondary school. Mr. D too was not eligible for this event related to success due to not possessing a minimum value of luck. Thus we can deduce that to pay the value of success every candidate must have a minimum amount of luck to successfully participate in this event.
So,
Value(luck)> value(luck0), where luck0 is the minimum or threshold luck;
Thus,
(Value(success) = value(intelligent hard work) + value(luck))&& (Value(intelligent hard work) ≠ 0)&&( Value(intelligent hard work) α 1/value(luck)) &&( Value(luck)> value(luck0), where luck0 is the minimum or threshold luck);
Success theory:
From above deductions we can write that every success has a value which can be paid in terms of value of luck and value of intelligent hard work where value of intelligent hard work is inversely proportional to the value of luck such that value of intelligent hard work cannot be equal to zero and the candidate must have am minimum amount of luck as an eligibility criteria to pay this value of success.
All that one can do is work intelligently to balance the factor of luck as they both are inversely proportional to each other. It’s not that the Bill gate was the best programmer and Mark Zuckerberg was the best geek of their times but they actually paid the value of their respective success in terms of intelligent hard work and luck with satisfying other conditions too. so, it’s ok if you are Mr. A, Mr. C or Mr. D because success is not a single result of intelligent hard work or being the best. Sometimes there are other factors too but if you feel you are Mr. B there is problem and you need to change your story.
