Motivation Is Greater Than Favour

MOTIVATION IS GREATER THAN FAVOUR One who is born in a state of affluence is bound to become intellectually dwarfed, while one who is born in poor circumstances emerges as an intellectual giant. A ccording to a survey, out of the world’s hundred richest people today, 27 are heirs and 73 are selfmade. Of the self-made, 18 have no college degree and 36 are children of poor parents, but some billionaires had neither a degree nor wealthy parents. (The Times of India, August 18, 2013). In other words, super-achievers are not born, they are self-made people. It is not external favour that makes one a super-achiever, but one’s own struggle. Superachievement is not achieved through inheritance, but is a self-acquired success. It is a fact that no one is a born billionaire, but it is also a fact that everyone is a potential billionaire. It is the unfolding of one’s own potential that makes