They Psychology Of A Successful Person

If you commend any highly successful individual on their accomplishments, they will most likely come back at you with this response: "it's not enough." You can give them a detailed list of everything they have done, and do so with great admiration and enthusiasm, but you probably will only get a small smile. For the most part, they will still end up saying "it's not enough."

A film I watched online spurred my thoughts on this matter. The movie involved a professional opera singer and a voice instructor. The singer was telling the instructor that, even though she had been retired for years, a strong desire to sing again and improve her skill had returned. She was already a renowned singer, but the drive to do more was insatiable. This re-ignited my interest in the human desire to continue to move forward, invent and improve.

Hearing an accomplished person say the they have not accomplished enough can be tough to hear. You wish for the person to acknowledge all that they have done. You want to see them bask in their successes. One would wish that, if they ever reached that level of accomplishment, they would feel on top of the world. But, keep this in mind when dealing with successful people--they would never have accomplished what they did without that "I could have done more" mentality. It is just that mentality that motivated and pushed them. Had they told themselves "I've accomplished enough" after their first victory, their career would have ended there.

But where does it come from? This "I could have done more" mindset?

I'm quite curious about human evolution and particularly how it works on the human brain, so I looked to science. I found that the yearning to always develop and move forward is a quality that evolved over time. An urge to improve was selected for.

Think about it. The cave man who craved to find more food even when he had some, to improve on his already suitable shelter;he had the traits that made him most likely to survive and reproduce. And as evolution goes, that trait was carried on to the next generation who then also desired to move forward and succeed.

I also discovered that people always revert to a set level of happiness. You've probably heard that lottery winners report feeling the same level of happiness a year after having won as they did right before. This incidence displays how humans have evolved to always desire more. Humans can only feel happy if they are working on a task; they inherited this quality;always wanting more.

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Julia Austin has covered topics in healthy lifestyle, travel and dating for sites like Yahoo!, MadameNoire and VitalJuiceLA. Her article topics have ranged from how to diet on vacation to how to ditch a first date and even how to become a better singer in unique ways like with http://www.thesingingzone.com/

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