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<p>Assignment: Is trying to please people a way to achieve success or a route to failure? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>Bill Cosby was right when he said that the key to failure is trying to please everyone. No matter how an individual may try, it is humanly impossible to please everybody. Although, some may argue that people-pleasers become more successful than their counterparts, it is quite obvious that those who try to please people end up displeasing themselves thus paving way for failure.</p>
<p>While my classmates were nervous and jittery because of the forth-coming examinations, I remained calm. This was because I was quite confident in myself as I always came tops in all the other tests we had written. I entered the examination hall feeling extremely grand with myself as I was so sure that I was going to get straight A’s. As we were about concluding a section in Math, I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. Lo and behold, it was one of the best football players in my high school. As a christian, I knew that it was wrong to cheat but I also knew that I would be one of the most hated girls in high school if I did not give him an answer to the question he asked me. As I was trying to pass the sheet of paper to him, my invigilator spotted me. At that moment, I knew the end was inevitable. He collected my answer scripts and sent me out of the hall. Words could not describe I felt. I had failed just because I tried to please people. If I had not answered my classmate, I would not have failed. Unarguably, trying to please people led to my failure.</p>
<p>Another example can be found in the life of THomas Edison. Thomas invented the light bulb after trying ten thousand times. After he failed the 9999th time, he was discouraged by a friend. This friend mocked him and told him that he was only wasting his time. But Thomas, despie all these demeaning remarks made by his friend and others, strove hard and finally created the light bulb the ten thousandth time. If he had listened to his friend and others who tried to discourage him, he would not have created the light bulb. Unarguably, not trying to please people led to his success.</p>
<p>Trying to please people is one easy ladder to failure. The above examples have already proven this fact. People-pleasers do not go very far in life.</p>