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Q. For achieving success, attitude is equally, if not more important than ability. Discuss with the help of examples from your daily life.

Attitude is a predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain idea, object, person or situation. Whereas, ability is an acquired or natural capacity that enables an individual to perform a particular job or task successfully and efficiently. Ability as well as attitude plays important role in achieving success.

Ability determines the skill set that an individual can acquire to do any task. It instills confidence in an individual, which helps a person to take advantages of opportunities available, overcome the difficulties and challenges in any tasks. However, ability sometime depends on individual capacity, which cannot be stretched beyond a point thus limiting an individual’s achievements.

In such a scenario it is attitude, which will determine the individual’s success despite his/her limited ability to perform a task. An example of this is Ira Singhal, who topped the Civil Service exam despite being differently abled person. Her physical challenges could not hamper her motivation which led to success.

Attitude serves as functions for the individual, which can help an individual to organize and structure his experiences as well as help him know himself better. Attitude also makes an individual adaptive. It is attitude which helps a person to change his/her disability into ability.

Attitude can be positive or negative towards a particular task or challenge. Positive attitude manifests through constructive and creative thinking, optimism, increased motivation and energy to do things and accomplish goals. Positive attitude increases person’s faith in his/her abilities as well as motivates and brings hope of brighter future. Negative attitude on the other hand can do exactly opposite of the same. Negative attitude can, in fact, limit one’s abilities.

Further, attitude determines whether a person will rise from the current level of success or fall from there. It is the attitude which will let him follow the value of hard work even after getting success. The best example can be that of a batsman in cricket, who is playing after making a century. It is his attitude which will allow him to eventually lead his team to a victory from there as he will keep on making the same effort and will not allow his mind to get cluttered with arrogance or ignorance.

Thus, attitude and ability are equally important for achieving success; however, it is attitude, which will motivate a person to enhance his/her ability to achieve more success in life. In fact, attitude supplements ability.