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Originally Posted by Lasaronen
How so?
Being great at something requires skills, abilities, and qualities that are required to be great at anything. To be great at poker might require different skill sets than to be a great mixed martial arts fighter but the very core requirements are always the same. If one can reach greatness in something, they have the tools to be great at anything. Yes, you could say a chess player may never be able to become a world class sprinter (and be correct in most cases), but you would be missing the point.
John Wooden's Pyramid of Success is a brilliant work that I really respect. John Wooden is a personal hero of mine so I am definitely bias to him but I honestly believe that if I were completely objective I would still think he has done an excellent job in his life long attempt to define success and how to achieve it. You can run take a look at his pyramid of success here:
http://www.coachwooden.com/index2.html (click on this link, continue to his page, and look for the (pyramid of success tab at the top)
Finally, people are, at least to some extent, a product of their environment. If everyone in the world achieved success and greatness (it's not a zero-sum game if you measure greatness and success differently than just using a standard scale of comparison) then I believe it would have a tremendously positive impact on society. The more examples of excellence there are in society the more likely it is that the rest of society becomes excellent at what they do as well, for example parenting. I guess if the majority of society were criminals and unethical people with a desire to ruin society making them more successful at things would be bad but I don't believe that is the case.
I really took a lot of words to not explain myself very well so maybe just go through the link I gave and you and try to understand what would give a person my perspective.