Given the ingredients and the recipe, delicious food is guaranteed. This is a formula for success.

If you ask what all people of the world what they want and pursue in their life, there is only one answer. It is success. Einstein once said ‘Character is more important than success’. For me, this seems to be a bit of a misconception. Yes, character is very important for an individual. You may earn respect. You may feel happy and content. You may be confident and self-aware. But all these virtues you have must mean one thing. They must mean success. Otherwise, it would mean you earned nothing.

Let me elaborate on this. What is success really? People have different definitions and meanings for success. Some may call their wealth a success. Others may call their wisdom a success. Yet others may call their status a success. For me, success means one thing. Getting what you want. If you are doing what you want to do, if you are where you want to be, if you get what you want, you are successful.

Looking at Einstein's claim from this perspective, it would be wrong to accept character as more important than success. But rather it would be more helpful and correct to state that character is just a means to an end, which is success. You build your character only to get what you want and be successful. Character alone won’t mean anything. That is why every one of…