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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Secrets of Success Liking and Enthusiasm One of the causes of success is taking up the vocation to your liking and that which commensurate to your intelligence or mental ability. God has not created all of us alike. We all are not bestowed with the ability of doing everything. But, in order to run the society smoothly He has given a distinct taste and tendency to everyone.

It is so, in order that one may take up the profession of ones own liking or bent of mind, and that, which attracts one; thus deriving benefit from ones natural competence. Generally one of the causes of young people’s failure and defeat is not following this established rule. As a result of wrong propaganda and faulty training they go after jobs, which are not according to their aptitude. They take up vocations for which they are not suitable.

They forget the accepted principle: “Every mind has certain predisposition. Lucky is the one who finds it out.” I remember that in the years 1951-53 the subject of oil had seized public attention. Every Iranian man and woman was thinking only about oil. The value of oil exports had soared high in the eyes of the Iranian society. This had caused a change in the thinking of the student community.

All or most of the students desired to join the oil industry though many of them did not have a natural bent for it. The progress and success of a student gets a lethal blow if he enters a field, which is not in line with his or her natural bent. For instance, if a youth is interested in literature, if his tongue and pen spread literary pearls and he has no liking at all for mathematics he will definitely not succeed except in the field of literature.

A page from the Biography of a Famous Painter Now let us read an extract from the diary of a famous painter: He was an idle boy during his college days. He neither studied properly nor allowed his companions to do so. He was a thorn both in his own path and that of others. Yet his appearance showed that he was a capable boy. A professor who was an expert psychologist called him, gave him some advice and warned him of the bad consequences of his life-style.

He counseled: Nobody is fortunate enough to have the protection of a father forever. Life is full of difficulties. The way you live will make you suffer badly in future… However, the professor observed that when he was advising the boy he was busy drawing a picture with a piece of coal on the floor.