What one quality must you have to assure your success in any type of work?

Let's use as an example one of the most difficult and exacting occupations: Science.

Would you say that the most important quality required to be a
Scientist would be a lightning-fast mind? Or a miraculous memory? Or high educational credentials?

Here is the answer from one of the nation's foremost scientists, the famed Dr. Edward Teller.

Dr. Teller says that in order to succeed as a scientist: "You do not need a lightning-fast mind, nor do you need a miraculous memory, not is it necessary that you got a very high grades in school. The only quality that counts is that you have a high degree of interest in science". And that applies to every occupation. You must have a high degree of interest in your work.

If that applies to the technical, factual, exacting work of a scientist, you can be sure that it applies equally to every other endeavor - including your present job and the more advanced work you plan to do in the future.

Let's listen to Dr. Teller again, "The only quality that counts is that you have a high degree of interest in your occupation."

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale would say that you must have a high degree of enthusiasm for your job. Dr. Peale writes, "Enthusiasm makes the difference!"

But if you want to go all the way to the top in your occupation, learn the inspiring lesson from author Lloyd C. Douglas in his novel: Magnificent Obsession.

When you work becomes an obsession - a magnificent obsession - whatever other qualities you need to reach the top will come to you, and everything will fall in place like a giant jigsaw puzzle assembled by a master hand.

Indeed, the very very parts of life, itself, will be put deftly in place by a Master Hand.