Does how you’re
raised, affect how successful you will be?
When you first hear this, well I know
I automatically think, yes it does. For one, money and social standing in
society play a large role in how far you’ll go. If you have the money, your
parents could pay for you to go to a huge, prestigious college such as Yale or Princeton.
With that comes the label that people and job opportunities will see, making
you look more qualified to have a job, rather than someone with les fortune,
who went to a state school. Secondly, if you go to an inner city school or live
in a town that is poorer, people are going to tell you that you have a lesser
chance to get into a good school or a good college and end up with a minimum
wage job. So the odds are already against you as society sees it, or tells you,
so why even try?
But thinking about this, I might
say no; how you are raised cannot affect how successful you’ll be. You might
have the attitude of, “I’m not going to follow the stereotype of what everyone
is telling me I have to be or what my future is going to be. I create my own
future.” Well, maybe not that exact wording but you get the idea J
Thinking about it now, I would say
that it all depends on the individual person and how they take on life. If they
are more “go with the flow,” and are put in a bad situation, they will have a
hard time being really successful. But if you refuse to let everyone make the
decisions for you on how your life is going to be, chances are you will have a
better chance of being successful.
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