Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship

William Henry "Bill" Gates lll, is a name I believe more than 70% of the world is familiar with in the world of technology today. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft which became the world's largest PC software company. In his early life, at age 13, Gates took interest in programming the GE system (General Electric Computer) in Basic, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote many computer programs from the implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer and many others to the designing and release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU.

After years of phenomenal exploration of the computer software, Gates and Allen saw the opportunity of starting their own computer software company. This innovation lead to a timely decision of the duo, which made Gates dropped out of Harvard by officially announcing his status with Harvard as being on [a] leave [of absence].

On the 26th of November 1976, after good years of effective relationship and co-work between Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the hyphen was dropped, as the duo finally named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and the trade name registered with the office of the secretary of the State of New Mexico. They had their first office located in Albuquerque.

Reading the story of these two great men, I came to the understanding of the severity in the path to greatness. In history and the biographies of top 100 richest and wealthiest men in the world, I could extract some basic fact and principles that defines ways men constantly walked their path to greatness. There is a common disease, subtle but terminal that arrests and brings to ruin the passions of ambitious or aspiring men or personalities in our generation. It's a common phenomena that men actively or passively desire a grand breaking achievement or attainment in life for greatness in life, but our attitude to getting to the altitude and remaining is a major factor in reaching our desired goal. Success, excellence or greatness is not just a mere walk or work of passion, it is rather a sum of years of accountability in discipline, tenacity and excellence among many other factors. Excellence does not emerge in a day, but a product of years of relentless mastering.

However, as it may be, other than passion, hardships are one of the number one challenges that pushes men to the achievement of their dreams faster than expected. Many, inventions and innovations from time past were solutions registered in the middle of deep challenges of life. Furthermore, as much as men desire success, and staying a ....