Public speaking is the most prevalent fear, I heard. And I believe it, because my acquaintances have this fear. However, people do not have the fear to the extent that I had. There were times where I, completely freezing at a scheduled speech, could not perform at all. But usually before this happens, I attempt to cancel the scheduled speech or not show up.

What causes failure? What is the solution? For years, I asked myself these questions; because I mostly failed. My failure pattern started in childhood. Riding the school bus, students teased and beat me regularly. "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees . . . ," they rhymed mockingly at me interspersed with punches, slaps, and pokes. Chink and Jap became my names.

Habits consist of behaving, consisting of thinking. Thinking, behaving, and habits decide success or failure. Thinking, behaving, and habits are the cause; success or failure is the effect. Controlling your thinking, behaving, and habits, you control success. If you believe thoughtfully, giving behaviorally, persisting habitually, you are on the success track.

Are perception or thought, behavior, and environment related? Does good perception or thought improve behavior, improving environment? Does bad perception or thought worsen behavior, worsening environment? Or is there a complete disconnect between these variables?

Perception Affects Behavior

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

According to the Old Testament, God created heaven and earth in seven days. Day one, God created light. Day two, He created sky. Day three, He created land, ocean, and vegetation. Day four, He created sun, moon, and stars. Day five, He created fish, birds, and whales. Day six, He created cattle, reptiles, wild animals, bugs, and humans. Day seven, He rested (Genesis 1:1-2:3).

What defines human life? Does thought, emotion, behavior, or environment define human life? Perhaps all of these factors? Are any of these factors related to success? If so, how?

Thoughts, Emotions, Behavior, & Environment

According to physics, a light beam consists of particles (photons) and waves. If you observe a light beam in a certain way, it appears to consist of particles.

Impulsiveness, laziness, and weaknesses waste time foolishly, wasting human life foolishly. Self-control, industry, and virtues use time wisely, using human life wisely. The world is filled with those living wisely and foolishly, those using time and wasting time, those virtuous and weak, those industrious and lazy, and those self-controlled and impulsive.

Outcomes come from thought. If the thought is virtuous, the outcome is virtuous. If the thought is vice-filled, the outcome is vice-filled. Outcomes of fine wines and food, beautiful mansions, and sharp suits contrast with outcomes of destructive drugs, dilapidated slums, and dull rags. Though outcomes come from thought, they don't directly come from thought - behavior intermediates.

Is success some elusive and abstract concept? Or is it mathematical and physical? This article will attempt to explain success mathematically and physically. Then after reading this article, you be the judge. Many people don't associate mathematics and physics with human thoughts, behavior, and life. However, mathematics and physics were created to help us understand reality - including human thoughts, behavior, and life.

A phobia is an intense fear that causes you to avoid the feared thing or endure it with unbearable mental pain. Additionally, a phobia is an irrational fear, in that most people either don't fear the same thing that you do or fear it to a much lesser degree. Some examples of common phobias are the fear of public speaking, dating the opposite sex, heights, spiders, closed spaces, crossing bridges or tunnels, going to the dentist, swimming in the ocean, flying in planes, and being in a crowd of people.