It's True: Success Breeds Success
What do you think success breeds? If you said, more success, you're probably pretty successful. That's the answer, all right. If you're good enough to do something well once, you can do it again and again, says a new study . In a study that used website-based experiments to uncover whether the age-old adage that “success breeds success” is a reality, researchers found that "early success bestowed on individuals produced significant increases in subsequent rates of success, in comparison to non-recipients of success," according to newswise.com. The findings suggest that early success that is not based on merit may produce inequality in achievement among similarly qualified individuals. But the study also found that greater amounts of initial success failed to produce greater subsequent success. Researchers tested the success-breeds-success hypothesis by randomly allocating “successes” to individuals. "In each scenario, we found that early s...