Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

Quoting from [antimony_trioxide]:

Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

To me, ability come first, then opportunity.

There are so many people out there who are granted with high ability, but without opportunity, they can't show their ability to others. but then again, if u have the ability, u can always look for opportunity. i don't believe pure luck in life. hard work lead to success.

Quoting from [antimony_trioxide]:



Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

 The most important single asset to success in business is wit(alertness of mind) and that is something either you have it or you don't. It cannot be aquired.

Ability!

Quoting from [antimony_trioxide]:


Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

The real key is Ability, since life is all about oppurtunity. Every second gives you a new angle to think of, every minute gives you one more minute of life's resources to figure out, every hour gives you the people ready to be with you, every day is like a new rose. if you dont focus on the poetic part, its all about the ability to see new doors in places where everyone has already visited and left.

Quoting from [Elisha]:

Quoting from [antimony_trioxide]:

Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

To me, ability come first, then opportunity.


There are so many people out there who are granted with high ability, but without opportunity, they can't show their ability to others. but then again, if u have the ability, u can always look for opportunity. i don't believe pure luck in life. hard work lead to success.

Yeah,u r so right,i think.Thanks so much for your reply to this question.Ability is first for everyone,and everyone is also need to look for some opportunities in the lives so that we could reach the hight own to ourselves.Opportunities is got via our hard work and grasption.

This has a lot to depend on what you mean by success.

To a lecturer, his gauge of success are interim and ultimate. His interim or immediate success is to achieve his interim goals, that is to be able to transfer knowledge to his students. His long term success is to be promoted to firstly to be the Head of Department, as Senior Lecturer, then to the Associate Professor, and Professor, then the Dean, and so on to be the Minister for Education.

To a simple person, his measure of success is short-term and immediate. He/she will revolve around this circle unless he makes a change. "Don't expect something to change for the better if you are doing the same thing all the time".

You may say ability to do something. There are two forms of acquired knowledge, one is by institutional learning, that is to be educated in the University, or Colledge or Job training, and the other is through experiencial knowledge, learning by practical experience, on-the-street to be street-smart. But institutional learning by itself is not enough to get you into a successful position, you have to see if this learning is directly applied to what you are doing, or what you will be doing. I know of graduates with Masters degree working in a trading company, like a kindergarten kid in that field, not able to apply his ability and full utilise it.

The other factor is the will to succeed. Humans need to be motivated to excel, and there are various forms of motivation and different individual agenda. Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard came up with the motivation theory, which is the chart for managers to use to motivate a team towards the goal of success. Summarising it into the 4 panes of a window, the first, unwilling and not able, second, willing but not able, third able but not willing, and last, willing and able. The last pane is what promises a successful position.

Opportunities come and go everyday, not with fanfare or any announcement, and most good opportunities usually come during adverse period. Opportunity is related to time, sometimes you hear someone says "I was in the right place, at the right time, and I was lucky". 

Greek language has some words the English language does not; the nuances for time. CRONOSdenotes a space of time, whether short, e.g. duration of time, or succession of time. Kairos primarily due measure, due proportion, when used of time, signified a fixed or definite period, a season, sometimes and opportune or seasonable time.

HORA primarily any time or period fixed by nature is translated as "time" in English text. It is termed as "period" or "hour", a measure of time.

The ability to recognise an opportunity and having the resources to seize it in that moment of time, involves wisdom to discern if this is the right time to take such action and to expect the rewards of the action after a period of time, is the measure of success. We all have plans, and write a plan for a business or a career, and end with the success story. How you measure success, and gauge it with optimism, like 50% success instead of 50% failure. If your expectation or goals are set too high, and impossible to achieve with present resources and ability, then you will be disappointed and discouraged. E.g. you set your sales target to 1 million dollars, when your achievement is only $100,000.00. See my posts on this subject in Business Culture.

Street

Quoting from [antimony_trioxide]:

Which is the real key to success,ability or opportunities?

 

Hello there,

well, your question is pretty simple actually, you see like a well trained fighter who never misses the opportunity to miss the opponent, a businessman as to have the ability, both in theory and practice (through hardship in life), to catch every opportunity.

My father once said that gold always lies on the streets, wheater its bad times or good times. So why is it that some get it and some don't.


-There are people with good mind but no money or guts to move forward.

-There are people with a lots of money but no mind or guts to see the gold.

-But the one with a lot of Guts and good mind or money will be the one to get that gold.

So its all a matter of timing and guts.

No ability no opportunity.