Success or Failure... Who or What made you the person your are today?

I think I'm successful in that I overcome all the challenges that are set to me. I'm a student at the moment, so time will tell if I become successful in the workplace too, but at the moment, I judge my success on overcoming the smaller obstacles in my life. I'm at a top ten university studying in a department which is in the top two in its field (it's always us or Sheffield at the top, and it appears to alternate), and so far I'm doing ok. I think there's success in that :)

I have to say, my granny. She has always has an influence on my life. Sometimes I find myself wanting to please her and make her smile. I hate when I dissapoint her, so I try my best to use her as a drive to succeed.

We are what our parents are... and there is no getting away from it. Sometimes we don't like the way our parents are doing things... and we promise ourself to be different. So we do everything differently... and guess what?... we still end up with the same results. Everyone over 25 should do an interesting little exercise. Analyse your parents. First look at what they did... and still do... then try to figure out why they did it that way... that's a little bit harder... but if you apply logic to it... you will find the answer... Once you find the answer... be prepare to be scare... because you will find out that your reasons for doing what you do are exactly the same reasons than your parents had. The only difference is that we are not exactly like our father or our mother. Instead we end up with half our father and half of our mother. The lucky ones have only the good half of both parents. The unlucky ones have the bad half of both parents.

Well, I think my career and my life is in making, so I can't really come to a conclusion as I am successful or not!

Thanks for choosing my answer the best. Put on interesting common topics. Will try to answer.

At first I want to say that success have no limit. If you succeed in first challenge you face, the second must be there. So to say I am a successful person, it's truly wrong. Man today is struggling to succeed in each and every step of his life. I, personally have succeeded in some of my challenges, also failed some and tried to learn the cause of failure and again took the challenge to succeed the next one. Any person can't make you. He/she can guide you on every step of the challenges, but what you do and how you do determines the success or failure. Obviously, it is my parents who have guided me the fullest to help me succeed.