Critical Thinking - Essay #1

Success

What make you successful? According to Anthony Robbins, an American motivational speaker, “the secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.” At the same time, some people believe that successful means that they have fulfilled all of the stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs by the mean that they have fulfilled their psychological needs, their safety, their sense of love or belongings, their self-esteem, and their self- actualization. However, people have different ways and beliefs to gain their success because every individual have their own definition of ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ that influence their nation of success. Nonetheless, most people fall into materialistic, escapist, and power categories to define the meaning of success.

Materialistic success is usually a result of media influence. Materialistic people always wanted to have a high status and luxury as much as possible. These days, media appear to praise and promote people who are rich and stand out because they have a great deal of money. For example, socialites such as Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashians, and Nicole Richie are being praise and becoming public figure because they have status and they have a great deal of money. At the same time, real public figure that have big influential to people likewise actresses, actors, singers, and models are now becoming materialistic. These figures being materialistic by living in all luxurious stuff such as, luxury cars, luxury fashion, and luxury houses. Afterwards, the media influence people becoming materialistic by using endorsement technique. Actresses are being endorsed in the advertisement by advertising luxury brand products, for example, Leonardo DiCaprio is an endorsement on Tag Heuer’s watches. Thus, day by day people becoming materialistic and believe in material success is the result of media influence.

Second of all, people who fell in the escapist category are different with people who believe in material success. People who fall into the escapist catagories believe in success that come fron the joy and fun and do a lot of new experience as much as possible. For example, people who believe in escapism success will do whatever they want tod o and gain as musch experience as they can as long as they are still living in this world. At the same time, the escapist are the dreamer they escape to the world of fantasy. Therefore, escapism is people’s beliefs in success that comes from experiences and joy. And these people believe that no man can live just by facing the relity of the world.

Furthermore, some people believe in success from the power. Success means success that come from the power that people have to control other people or some people belief that power menas that everyone will look up on them. These people who believe in power success normally they work in a place where there are lots of different positions. At the same time, these people normally work as the leader for example, a manager in a company. They like to work by controling other people as leader and people will respect them because of their position. As the words of a power success believer, Mark Hansen, “you must be on top of change or change will be o top of you.” This quote shows directly that this person is a powerfull person and he likes to control and take the lead of everything and this power means success for him. To sum up, success power is success that comes from the power of he person either t is in work place or outside. These believers are usually leaders or people with high position that people will pay respect to and get controlled by.

In conclusion, success is achievement from something desired, plenned, or attempted. Subsequently, people desired and planned a different way. Some people live for their fortune by having all the luxurious properties, which we called hem people beieve in material success. Meanwhile, there are some people who live to gain as much fun and experiences as their goals to becoming successful, and we call them as escapist, which means that they escape from the reality. Moreover, there are people whom determine success as gaining as much power as possible to control other people and respected by other people, and usually this people are leaders. Thus, people are different in the way they think, yet we still have something in common that we have our own motivation and goals to be successful.