He drew strength from philosophy, religion and literature to tide by his professional setbacks; also a life with few companions. In time, he also learnt to deal with professional jealousy and uncooperative team members. Success followed Dr Kalam. Prithvi, Agni, Akash, Trishul and Nag missiles were huge successes.

Career As a Scientist For the Indian army, A.P.J Abdul Kalam designed a mini helicopter. Major breakthrough came when he was transferred to ISRO catering to the project of SLV-III. Being the representative of TBRL, he acted as the representative of Smiling Buddha which was the first nuclear test to be conducted.

Dr Kalam’s three step guide to achieve goals in life are: Finding an aim in life before you are twenty years old; Acquire knowledge continuously to reach this goal; Work hard and persevere so you can defeat all the problems and succeed.

Sharing his life experience from how keen he was to fly from his childhood, to being an aeronautical engineer, making missiles and satellites, and being the president of India, he said, “If four things are followed-having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work and perseverance then anything can be achieved.”

1. Learn How to Handle Failure. Kalam said that if you want to be successful, you must not only learn how to handle success but also learn how to handle failures. This is because you will definitely face rejections, failures and all sorts of challenges while you are on your journey to achieve your dreams.

4 True Rules To Success | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

• Have a great aim.
• Continuously acquire knowledge.
• Work hard.
• Persevere.

Do your best to choose positive energy such as gratitude, humility, patience, courage, happiness, hard work, charity, and kindness. It doesn’t mean that we must all live in the light every moment of every day with positive energy; no, it would be impossible because we are all human after all.

if you want to be successful, you must not only learn how to handle success but also learn how to handle failures. If you want to maintain the success, then you must learn to handle the failure. Failure is the first step towards the success. Accept the failure, improve yourself and fertile your dreams.

Here’s how to become the best at what you do:

1. Work On Yourself, Not On Your Job.
2. Consistently Put Yourself Into Situations Others Can Only Dream Of.
3. Don’t Copy Other People. Make Them Copy You.
4. Stay In Love With The Process.
5. Never Forget Why You’re Doing This.
6. Conclusion.

A P J Abdul Kalam inspired me in a lot of ways but one thing which inspired me most was his reaction and adaptation to Failure. He never stopped working and dreaming just because of failure instead he worked harder. His words dream transform into thought and thoughts create action inspire me a lot.

The first rule of success is that you must create your own definition of success. It doesn’t matter what you want to do or how you want to do it (so long as it’s in the realm of ethics).

At the end of their journey, Raynor and Ahmed argue that making a successful company can be boiled down to 3 essential elements:

• Better before cheaper. Don’t compete on price at the outset.
• Revenue before cost. Don’t focus on cutting expenses.
• Nothing else matters. Do whatever necessary to figure out 1 and 2.

Then we discovered something startling: The many and diverse choices that made certain companies great were consistent with just three seemingly elementary rules: 1. Better before cheaper—in other words, compete on differentiators other than price….

• Better Before Cheaper.
• Revenue Before Cost.
• There Are No Other Rules.

When I studied business, the general rule was that the number one rule of business was always “to increase shareholder value.” The response I usually get next is, “Isn’t making money the same thing?”