The Pursuit of Happyness Code

Arif Hussain
2 min readSep 4, 2021

There’s a scene in the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” where Chris Gardner (Will Smith) has an interview scheduled. He is not able to change clothes for the lack of time and ran straight out from the police station to the office. When asked the question that what would he say if the interviewers hired somebody, who had come in the interview without a shirt (like him). He replied, “He must’ve had on some really nice pants”.

At the time of the interview, he had nothing to lose. He had only his son and his dreams beside him. No job, no place to stay, bad relationship, he was at his lowest point in life. He didn’t know the job but convinced interviewers that he started learning on his own and wanted to learn the business from them. After being given the opportunity, he gave all that he had and proved it by his performance and results. He had a code in place.

And, this code is what makes people achieve success or resign to failure.

Without further delay here is the Code — It’s just 3 letters — “Give it all”

See, the reason most people don’t achieve success is that they focus on the wrong questions.

Questions like:-

Why is this happening to me?

Why am I not making as much money as I desire?

Why don’t people buy from me?

Why does nobody understand me?

But, the code to Success as I learned from The Pursuit of Happyness is this — Knowing your “Why”, finding your “How” faster than anyone else on the planet and “give it all” what you have.

Ask right questions like:-

What can I do to make people buy from me?

How to acquire the skills that will deserve my money desire?

What can I do to make people understand me better?

No matter, what the situation is, Chris is never stuck at “What resources he doesn’t have”. He knows his “Why”, he chooses his “What” and he finds his “How” to get out of any challenging situation and give all his efforts.

That’s why we love the Chris Character.

That’s how we achieve success.

So, will you move from your reasons for not doing something to the reason of doing something and find the “How”

Type “Give it all” in the comments if you agree with The Pursuit of Happyness Code to success.

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