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Some people fail in school but end up being successful in life. Why do you think that is the case? What is the most important thing to succeed in life?

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A number of people do not do well in early academic stages, yet they manage to have an outstanding performance in their career or other aspects of
life
. In
this
 essay I will explain the reasons for
this
 phenomenon. After that, I will talk about the main criterion that a person needs to have in order to lead a successful
life
. Success in
school
do not reflect
Suggestion
does not reflect
 success in real
life
 for two reasons. The prime reason, is that
school
 curriculums are designed to measure the
calssic
of recognized authority or excellence
classic
 perspective of
intelligence
.
Consequently
, leaving other types of
intelligence
 unmeasured, like athletic
intelligence
, social
intelligence
, music
intelligence
 and business
intelligence
. Another reason, is that students build different kinds of experiences in their early stages of
life
, not only
school
 related experiences.
For example
, a lot of successful
business men
the body of individuals who manage businesses
businessmen
 used to engage in business activities when they were teenagers, like Warren Buffet, which is a practice that was not intrigued nor recorded by their academic institutions. If I have to choose one criterion for a person to lead a successful
life
, it would be being more prominent than his/her peers in one particular skill.
This
 means, that a person who has an outstanding performance in creating something, and can accomplish it better than his/her peers, would have a greater chance of leading a
scuccessful
having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
successful
 career, even if these skills do not help him/her getting good grades in
school
.
For example
, Leonel Messi was prominent in soccer.
Although
 he did not get good grades in
school
, he is now considered to be more successful than most of his classmates, even the ones who got remarkably high marks. In conclusion, while I think it is important for people to get
good education
Suggestion
a good education
, failure in
school
 does not condemn them to
failure
Suggestion
fail
 in real
life
. Schools are not designed to measure all aspects needed for success;
furthermore
in addition
Furthermore
, children and juveniles can accumulate different kinds of skills while growing up. One of these skills might end up being the skill that leads them to have a more successful career than their peers.
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