What is a success in life?

I think creativity is the most important quality to making a person a success in life. There could be many kinds of answers to the question, ‘what is a success in life?’, but I think the success Is to become an important person in society by making a brilliant achievement in their field.

For example, Kun-hee Lee, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, first proposed to place ‘send’, ‘clear’, and ‘end’ buttons at the upper part of the mobile phone. At that time those buttons were placed below the number keypads. Many engineers first thought he was just joking, but he explained why those buttons must go up. He said that most people use thumbs when handling mobile phones and when ‘send’ and ‘end’ buttons are at the bottom, it is fairly inconvenient to press those buttons. Then the engineers developed mobile phones which have ‘send’, clear’, and ‘end’ buttons at the upper size of mobile phone and this became a new standard of manufacturing mobile phones from that time. Needless to say this contributed in sales increase and made his company become one of the top companies in mobile phone industry.
Importance of creativity doesn’t limit in industry. Incases of sports, especially soccer, players those who play with creativity success in the league. When Hiddink, the coach of Korea national soccer team in world cup 2002, first came to Korea, he said many Korean players lack creativity when on the ground. With the players whom he thought were creative, the team advanced to semi-finals in the World cup 2002 which made a new epoch in history of Korean sport.

Of course many efforts should be accompanied with creativity, but when we look at those who already succeeded; It is easy to find that creativeness was at the basis of their success. Success comes from changing the way to look at the world and this is what many people already know by many instances in the history.
Let’s change our antique thinking first !