Serve your time in school/training/learning and sticktoitiveness (and usually intelligence) can get you the foot-in-the-door/recognition/license/certification/degree/piece of paper but wisdom will enable you to choose what and whom to believe and to use what you learn(ed).
Connections can unlock doors to opportunities but can also hinge on loyalties to be rendered and/or dues to be paid.
Initiative, creativity, avarice and jealousy can fuel productivity and innovation but your moral compass will guide how they are used.
In the end, you are responsible for determining your life's journey - its route, its quality, its goals/focus, its meaning, its value, its depth and breadth, its associations, its goodness or evilness and your happiness or displeasure with it.
Serve your time in school/training/learning and sticktoitiveness (and usually intelligence) can get you the foot-in-the-door/recognition/license/certification/degree/piece of paper but wisdom will enable you to choose what and whom to believe and to use what you learn(ed).
Connections can unlock doors to opportunities but can also hinge on loyalties to be rendered and/or dues to be paid.
Initiative, creativity, avarice and jealousy can fuel productivity and innovation but your moral compass will guide how they are used.
In the end, you are responsible for determining your life's journey - its route, its quality, its goals/focus, its meaning, its value, its depth and breadth, its associations, its goodness or evilness and your happiness or displeasure with it.