Success is Not So Difficult

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In 1965, a student from South Korea went to Cambridge University for psychology.

He always went to cafes every afternoon for the conversation some successful people engaged in: Nobel Prize winners, academic authorities, and some economists. They were very humorous, took life easy and their success as something sure to come.

Some time later, he found he was cheated by the so-called successful people in his own country. Their exaggeration about the hardship involved in starting a business frightened young men. That is to say, their experience in achieving success knowingly or unknowingly made those who craved for success beat a retreat in the face of difficulties.

As a student in psychology, he thought it was necessary to do some research on their attitudes. In 1970, he turned in his thesis—Success is Not So Difficult as You Assume—to Professor Well Braden, the founder of the modern Economic Psychology.

After reading it, professor Braden was overjoyed at the new findings: this hadn’t been studied before, although it was common in the eastern countries as well as throughout the world. With pleasure, he wrote to his schoolmate, Park Chung Hee, president of South Korea at that time, saying, “I am not sure how much it can help you, but I am convinced that it must be more influential than any decrees.”

This book witnessed the economic launch in South Korea, and encouraged thousands of Koreans as expected. It tells us from a new perspective that success is not necessarily related to hardship. As long as you have an interest in something and keep up, you will succeed, because God endowed you enough time and wisdom.

This young man in this story later became the president of the Pan Asia Motors Corporation of South Korea.