Personal Statement: The Law Of Success

In my opinion, 'success' is a word that describes a phase when a person has successfully achieved the goals of his life. As Napoleon Hill revealed in his book The Law of Success, that "The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed". This suggests that people should be able to overcome their limitations to achieve their dreams that would change their life. However, there is no instant way to make it happens, all of which requires hard struggle with the maximum effort. The biggest success in my life is, when I could transform from someone who had low self-esteem personality, become someone who is easier to socializing and dare to speak in public.
Since elementary school, I was known as a child who loved to study. I had always been the number one ranking in class. But it did not make me be a child who was easy to socialize with other people. I did not have many friends at school. I once ostracized by friends at school, because I was considered as a “teacher’s favorite-son”. But if school exams would arrive, they would be suddenly approached me. Maybe for some people, it was the usual problems of children. But it was enough to affect my psychological condition.I became personally reticent, and also, difficult to socialize. …show more content…
I learned to have a friend. But I still did not have the courage to dare to speak in public. Then, a bad thing happened when I was in vocational high school. My family’s economic condition was not good at that time. My father had lost his job. I felt sad when all the family’s burden should be borne by my mother. I felt so depressed in this phase. My academic grades dropped dramatically. I almost gave up, I thought that may be better to get work than to go to school. As the result, I did not have many friends, maybe, they stayed away from me because of my strange