Being Nice: Does it lead one down the road of success?

   "It Makes You Nicer"

    No matter what you categorize success as, whether it be monetary wealth or internal happiness, it is important to examine how one's social skills play a role in their path. In most cases, a successful person has used a relationship to help them in life. This could be a supportive family member or by befriending a boss. These relationships tend to come about when a person is kind to the other person.

     As the video states, literature can make a person nicer. The creator of the video talks about how someone can see characters who are kind, and it allows a reader to see a very specific point of view that they would not have otherwise. This can be extremely helpful within the discussion of success, and what that might look like. 

    On one side, a person might view being nice and caring as success itself. This plays back into the fact that success looks different for everyone. In this case, literature would help that person grow their mindset and allow them to reflect on past actions or even future ones. Many times, people can find a resemblance to either characters or plot points within literature and a book with a similar setting might offer deeper insight, allowing someone to reach their goal, and even expand what they originally thought. 

    Another perspective would be that kindness is a tool of sorts used to get to success, no matter what that might look like. One could certainly argue that success is built on relationships no matter what, and relationships are usually based on trust and kindness. Personally, I find this perspective accurate to my life. As a sports instructor, I find relationship-building incredibly important in building clientele and in turn, a successful occupation. By being kind to parents, students, and everyone in between, I find it much easier to be happy with my job and its success. 

    In this case, literature is still incredibly important. Similar to the first point made, being able to see what other people think is so important, especially since humans have such a wide range of emotions. By exploring characters and works of literature we can identify patterns in how kindness and relationships play a role in success for each person. Does the nice person "win" in the end? Many works of writing can be used to gain insight into this question, and as the video nicely states, "...they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance..."