A young man asked Socrates the secret of success.Socrates asked the young man to meet him beside the river the next day morning.

The young man met him the next morning, Socrates asked him to walk along with him into the water and both were into the water till the water got up to the neck.

Surprisingly Socrates dunked the young man into the water, and kept him down, his struggle to come out was in vain. Out of suffocation the boy was about to turn blue, then socrates pulled the boy out of water.

The first thing the boy did was to take in a huge gasp of air, now socrates smiled at him and asked him what he wanted when he was under water, promptly the boy said "AIR"

Then Socrates told him that this was the secret of success - and explained when he had wanted success so desprately as air was needed when he was under water, then he can have it, and there lies no other secret than this.

A desire to obtain something is the initiation point for all the accomplishments in life.