”Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name”
That´s at least how Fort Minor, or the artistic genius Mike Shinoda sums up the formula for success. I guess each individual in position of prosperity and fame has their own funky 101 on how to be successful, but generally there´s a few links that can be blatantly understood as necessities. Firstly it´s the basic predisposition that you are in possession of some sort of talent or service that you can provide with general or purposely diversified appeal. Secondly you probably should find someone, or be sought by someone that finds your qualities interesting or relevant to their own quest for fame and glory. In according to the first statement there will always be shortcuts and cases where the apparent “quality” of the service or product provided is not apparent.
I´m not gonna exemplify, but I think we can sigh in unison at the half-witted blondes with a lower indicator on their BMI index than a less fortunate soul from the third world (without all the flies of course… Get updated on your Mariah Carey if you didn´t get that one) and a singing voice that won´t even match Cloverfields delightful screeching even WITH severe autotuning. That “boobie-pop” or whatever the Norwegian tabloids call it. In all aspects of society we find these individuals without any form of talent or positive quality, who despite all odds still manage to find their way to the masses. No hating though, guess these people deliver some sort of message as well, after all it´s gravely vital to inform the younger one´s that macromastia is “ok!”…
A certain element to making it big is to know the right people as well. It could be someone who can be considered quite made already, or someone in possession of great determination or talent that can only seem subject to one outcome, success. If you help enough people to get what they want, you´re bound to get somewhere yourself. Respectable people seldom forget favors, and scratching backs will most likely get yours scratched as well. Being a part of the winning team in someone else’s materialized dream doesn´t sound all that bad, does it? But good deeds can only get you so far concerning self-realization, and thus must one learn from mistakes, victories and incentives of both the valiantly successful and the unlucky ones that never quite made it.
Besides all should-have qualities, there´s a big undeniable demand for one elemental trait that all great beings have in common. And that is personality. It doesn´t have to be a good one (I guess this is all in the eye of the beholder), but you have to have the ability to be remembered. Unless you´re aspiring to be an assassin, then I guess you´re better off being the John Doe of the Ola Nordmann´s. You can claim that all people have personality, and most certainly they do, it´s just a matter of how many times you´ve heard it before, or how vast of a difference the personality can have in relation to one´s own identity or interests. Anyhow, most famous people are where they are because we love them for what they are. Levi Maestro seems like a loveable guy, Lady Gaga seems like she´s 70 % crazy and 30 % ingenious and Simon Powell has a whole lot of money because he is talented as hell when it comes to being a total ass. So the morale of the story is, even though you have contacts, money to invest, talent and big dreams, you still should work on finding yourself first. If not, you better come across it somewhere along the path to fortune and fame, cause when some talk show host invites you and shreds you to pieces with scantily disguised missiles in verbal form, you better be able to answer good, and still seem like an awesome character. Or just a really mean one, there are all sorts of shades in this color palette. Bottom line, get a healthy narcissistic approach to your life, sort it all out, and find out how you can move yourself onto others. In the end you are most likely to sell yourself (not that way), and as a result, that “yourself” has got to count for something. - Rydis
Spell success? EASY = BAWS. We got next.
