Success is what every person tries to achieving their lifetime, and through this overarching goal you get those that are successful and those that are not. In the article by James Clear What Mozart and Kobe Bryant Can Teach Us About Deliberate Practice, deliberate practice is the defining characteristic that separates people from success and stagnation (or failure). Clear defiance deliberate practice as a medium in which, along with other factors, decide success through work that specializes on the specific needs improvement. This specificity in one’s improvement decides how much they improve and eventually decide their success. So the more specific and intensely any person trains on a specific skill, the higher the probability that they’ll be successful in that skill. In Clear’s writing, deliberate practice is not correlated to how much you practice on trying to improve a skill; but more about what in particular about that skill you’re trying to improve. In the article, Clear brings up Jerry Seinfeld's, “ ‘don’t break the chain’ strategy is all about deliberately practicing the skill of writing jokes.” In other words, in order for a comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, to improve in his career he needs to practice the particular skill of writing jokes to be successful. Jerry’s term “don’t break the chain” simply means to not break the chain of jokes. This correlates to Clear’s perception of improvement stemming from training deliberately versus training without a purpose. The strategy Seinfeld uses to improve his comedic ability is what has made him successful in his field as a comedian through long nights of studying, coming up with, refining, and memorizing new jokes. In Clear’s writing, it isn’t just deliberate practice that affects success, but the time put in as well. The amount of time someone puts into is what separates the mediocre from professional. Clear states this when he quotes John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor, edges point that after studying 500 popular pieces of music all written by famous composers that, “Not a single person produced incredible work without putting in a decade of work first.” What this means is that the best composers on average took at least 10 years to fine-tune their craft and produce the famous works we’ve come to know as masterpieces. As a society, we deem these people successful, but these composers only achieved that label by putting in the time and effort. Only through countless hours of fine-tuning, refining, study, and deliberate practice will anyone achieve success in what they’re trying to do. In another article written by a woman named Angela Lee Duckworth titled, The Key to Success? Grit, Duckworth states then order to be successful, one must have grit. in the article, “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals... Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years.” In other words, Duckworth is supporting Clear’s argument that it takes time along with the will to succeed to be successful. Not only must a person deliberately practice to get better, but they must stick with their long-term goals in order to succeed because as John Hayes said it, success takes time. Success defined by both Duckworth and Clear coincide to complement and support the overall requirements for success, defined by society, which are hard work (Deliberate Practice) and the will to succeed (Grit). This can be seen in everyday life and can be accomplished by anyone. An example of this can be a student. A student that studies his homework and prepares for class every day by reading lecture notes, his textbook, and staying on top of everything he needs to do is going to be more successful than the student that does not do these things. This is because a student that doesn’t do any of these things isn’t going to be ready for tests, doesn’t know the information at heart, and simply isn’t connected with what he’s learning so he can’t improve. Success is defined by our society as finally reaching one’s goals. True success, however, is much more than just reaching your goals. It’s the effort that you put in along the way and how you deliberately practice to try an improve yourself along with keeping to your goals. This will eventually lead you to success, but you have to stick with it in order to achieve it. It is a completely personal journey that no one besides you can complete.