<p>Prompt:</p>
<p>I dont what the key to success is , but the key to failure is to try to please everybody – Bill Corby</p>
<p>I agree with Corby’s assertion that trying to please everyone is the key to failure. Although, this form of altruism may be the right way forward, you end up neglecting yourself and your own abilities and hence disappoint yourself . As I myself have experienced and we have seen in the marketing and advertising sector and the sporting arena, it is not the best way forward.</p>
<p>The marketing and advertising sector well justifies this point. In marketing the saying is you cant please everyone, which is true as various section of the society react differently to different products. A male teenager will not have the same response as a female teenager or a middle aged man. May it be the motor industry, where cars are targeted and labeled as a mans car or a womens car or the growing mobile phone industry, realizing the fact that you have to target different sections to gain profits and results and the fact you cant please everyone is something one has to learn inorder to survive the competition.</p>
<p>The sporting arena also reaffirms Corby’s assertion. Take the example of baseball , you may not have ability to hit homeruns and may be a more adept base runner, you must realize that no matter how much the crowd chants for a homerun , you should stick to the best of your abilities. When you try to please others you invariablely disappoint yourself.</p>
<p>I also personally experienced that when you please others, you disappoint yourself. I was the top of my class and my friends often asked me for helping them out when they couldn’t understand something. The day before the exam I was continuously bombarded with phone calls asking me to sort one thing or the other. As a result, I couldn’t really strengthen my oen weaknesses and underperformed in the test</p>
<p>When we try to help others, over a limit we forget to strengthen our own weaknesses and forget to work on them. We in the end only disappoint ourselves. It feels great to know that with your help your friend aced the test, but the sadness that engulfs you when you under perform when you were busy helping others you is ineffable.</p>
<p>I intend to give the SAT in december.
Please give your comments on my essay.
Also, please ignore if there have been some spelling errors and grammatical errors, they most probably cropped up when i was typing this thing 
(unless of course, if it is obviously an error)</p>