<< There are some characteristics of individuals thatmakes their lives more successful. It is thought thatthe most important elements among them that lead tosuccessful lives are optimism, and patience. Withoutthem, it is hard for individuals to achieve goals oftheir lives and thus success in their lives. It is important for individuals to have optimisticview in order to have successful life, sincepessimistic view which opposes to optimism tends tolead to greater failures and worsening of thesituations. It is always happen, when ones predictthat anything bad will happen or they will not besuccessful in anything, that they actually makes thesituation worse. The pessimistic predictions make theindividuals more nervous and clumsy, which probablyleads to failures and mistakes. Moreover, thesepessimistic views prevent people from making furtherefforts to achieve their goals, thus they usually stepback when they hold these negative views. Although itmay be sometimes important to step back from thegoals, this, more clearly, leads to less successfullife. The second important characteristic of a person tolead to a successful life is openness, or in otherwords, flexibility. It can be observed thatopen-minded people have less resistance to somethingdifferent or new to them, and thus they absorb newknowledge and experience more successfully to agreater extent. This appears to contribute tosuccessful life, because these knowledge can plays arole in developing wider understandings of the world,which enables them to predict the futures and to findbetter solutions to the problems. For example, ifperson does not listen to anybody, and just stick totheir own ideas that may contain some mistakes, he orshe will not be able to expand their knowledge, whichwill narrow down his or own her view. Narrower viewstend to lead to failures and mistakes, thus tounsuccessful life. On the basis of theseconsiderations, the importance of openness orflexibility is significant in having a successfullife. Patience is another important element of thesuccessful life, since it allows the individuals tokeep making effort in order to achieve their goals andthus to successful lives. The patience givesindividuals resistance against hard and difficultsituations, where, say, their goals seem to be out oftheir reach. Continuous efforts even under thesesituations enable individuals not only to gainknowledge and experience and to go close to the goals,but also to improve their mental strength. Even iftheir results turn out unsuccessful, this mentalstrength obtained can help individuals to find anothergoal and make effort for them in the future, whichwill obviously contribute to the successful life. In conclusion, it important for a person to haveoptimism, openness and patience in order to achievesuccessful lives.