The Secret of Success

Foreword Alfred Adler (1870-1937) the renowned psychologist, focused principally on individual psychology. One observer made the following comment on Adler’s chosen field: After spending a lifetime studying people and their hidden reserves of power, the great psychologist, Alfred Adler, declared that one of the wonder-filled characteristics of human beings is “their power to turn a minus into a plus”. God has created human beings with extraordinary capabilities. This quotation is a succinct acknowledgement of God’s work as expressed by a psychologist. Indeed, one of the greatest features of human capability is that a person can see the bright side to things —even in darkness. He finds it possible to change unfavourable situations into favourable ones. Even in defeat, he can find new opportunities to achieve success. It is a fact that a human being is by nature well equipped to turn his minuses into pluses. But there is a condition attached to this—He shall have to opt for the way of management and abandon the way of confrontation. An individual ought first of all to study the situation he is faced with and then plan his course of action objectively. A person will succeed if he follows the principle of management rather than confrontation. Non-confrontational methods always yield positive results, while confrontational methods only aggravate matters. In human life the most important thing is the will to act. The people who ultimately succeed are those who are undaunted by adverse circumstances, who waste no time in lamenting over their disadvantages and who give their attention instead to overcoming whatever difficulties they face. It is not, after all, the one who has never had to face any kind of difficulties, who is necessarily the most successful in life. The truly successful person is one who can carry his ambitions into effect no matter what hurdles he has to surmount. He is the one who