These four human traits are, perhaps, the major characteristics of the most highly successful people. In part, they are inherited from their forebears. They are crucial for both parties in intellectual attraction.
Intelligence, for example, cannot be learned for the most part. It can be practiced at, however, we have to have a foundational amount to start with in its use, otherwise, all the practice we can muster won't budge our IQ upward even a bit.
On the other hand, our beliefs come from our life's history and the experiences that we have.
They aren't directly inherited, although through the folklore and other cultural teachings that we will encounter through our development as children, we may absorb similar stories, generation by generation. The longer the stories last, the more likely that they contain universal human experiences that transcend time.
Maturity is in the middle. For example, we learn much of our character through learned experiences of what is ethical or unethical, and we also learn what kinds of environments, and what features of them, tend to do us harm. Then again, if we have inherited great attention ability and self-awareness, an ability at Observing Ego, we learn social lessons and undergo personal growth, faster. So maturity is partially inherited on this count.
Finally, our life's goals may be entirely arbitrary, as we can just state them, and pursue them. However, we may find ourselves not succeeding as much at the ones which we arbitrarily choose to pursue, when they don't harvest and capitalize on our natural, inborn gifts and tendencies.
The 4 Traits of Success
Intelligence ➳
In any case, in most of the success that you have ever personally had, you likely found that you had a natural tendency to pursue something that you simply seemed to have more natural understanding of and efficiency with. You might even have found yourself telling people, "I can do this in my sleep." And you did it efficiently. You had intelligence to begin with, and expanded it with practice. We don't pair well with a partner on a goal if we have a greatly mismatched intelligence level. One or the other person is going to end up resentful.
Maturity ➳
Next, you might have found that with age and experience, you had learned lessons in past attempts and failures at the task, and at the time, you felt overwhelmed, or too focused on just one aspect of it or another, causing it to flounder. Or you chose the wrong people to involve in it or assist you, such as many entrepreneurs find in their early careers. You also may not have had the discipline or resolve. But years later, you had more of an even-handed and even-minded approach to it, and were a better judge of collaborators, supporters, and partners, then saw your dream start to realize closer than ever before. You had grown some maturity along the way, whose balance" and discipline, and fairness toward other people really expanded your success. We don't fare well with a partner with whom we have very divergent maturity levels, which is like not having a partner at all.
Empowering Beliefs ➳
At this point, you have found the natural gift to pursue certain goals with efficiency and knowledge of simply "how to do it." You "just know," and that is intelligence. You've made mistakes, and found balance, discipline, and fortitude in pursuing it. And that is maturity. But even with a giftedness for something, and perseverence, even then, you may have found yourself, doubting yourself. People told you that you couldn't achieve it, help which we all need, did not arrive, and soon, you may have found yourself starting to give up on the goal or goals. That may be when you dug into yourself and discovered that you had the "wrong thinking" to achieve the thing. That part of you was actually, silently working against accomplish the thing, and that these beliefs may have come from someone other than you, like a parent or enemy. You then either had to change what the goal is, because it was not aligned with who you are, and therefore what you even like, or else you needed to get yourself, "an attitude change" in which you "remember who you really are," and got your beliefs in yourself, and therefore the "big dream," more honest and aligned.
Impassioning Goals ➳
Next, you might have found that with age and experience, you had learned lessons in past attempts and failures at the task, and at the time, you felt overwhelmed, or too focused on just one aspect of it or another, causing it to flounder. Or you chose the wrong people to involve in it or assist you, such as many entrepreneurs find in their early careers. You also may not have had the discipline or resolve. But years later, you had more of an even-handed and even-minded approach to it, and were a better judge of collaborators, supporters, and partners, then saw your dream start to realize closer than ever before. You had grown some maturity along the way, whose balance" and discipline, and fairness toward other people really expanded your success. It is hard to align on goals with a partner who has directly opposed goals to your own. They want to be a city attorney on the eastern seaboard, and you want to be a cowboy or cowgirl living on a western prairie. Your personal life's goals are likely to be in conflict, and there are features of one's "mission" or "purpose" in life that must make use of masculinity, femininity, or passion that form yet another connection between the unconscious, reptillian brain and the higher brain.