| Within the Systematic Theory of Success there are a | | | | may be more likely to be experienced differently by |
| number of factors, grouped together there are | | | | other people but this isn't experienced by the individual |
| potential, kinetic, control and physical kinds. This is a | | | | and not included. |
| complete list and explanation of the physical factors. | | | | Knowledge |
| Expression | | | | Knowledge here can be strictly the confident persons' |
| This factor can be seen by other people, it is the one | | | | self-awareness or the information resources available |
| that you may judge whether a person is confident or | | | | to them. It exists in a form as a potential factor but |
| not by how they look, act or play. It is not crucial if this | | | | because it is something shared and experienced by |
| is seen or not by other people. Any communicative | | | | more than the individual is considered an external or |
| and linguistic skills that a person has will be expressed | | | | physical factor. This factor is not called information or |
| here. Often confident people or people with a positive | | | | data because it is more structured than that and is |
| attitude will use it for their own purposes, whether that | | | | something that is known. Knowledge is an enabler, |
| is to achieve their purpose or as a control over | | | | without it no other kinds of factors can be used. There |
| themselves. Expression is often also a means of | | | | has to be core of self-knowledge to be able to define |
| bringing out creativity driven by the kinetic factors. | | | | what purpose the person wishes to have. Often this |
| Combined with the knowledge that a person has | | | | knowledge is misunderstood and distractions become |
| expression also creates history, having expressed and | | | | a persons' purpose, leading to immediate |
| achieved a number of goals. There is a restriction on | | | | self-gratification or worse self-destruction. The |
| expression that is imposed upon the world by physical | | | | relationship between knowledge and purpose is crucial |
| factors, disabling them from being able to achieve a | | | | and some amount of self-awareness must exist and |
| purpose. This restriction may be a physical disability or | | | | the knowledge it gives, to be able to determine the |
| it may be the environment. This restriction however | | | | purpose of the person. Its relationship to direction too is |
| can be reduced by any increase in the kinetic or | | | | crucial, or the person will end up randomly going from |
| potential factors. | | | | one purpose to another. Knowledge is the information |
| History | | | | needed by belief to allow them to be confident. |
| This is what the person has achieved already, either | | | | The interesting difference in knowledge here however, |
| connected with their purpose or not. As an external | | | | that makes it different from its normal definition is that |
| view of a person it is often how people can judge the | | | | it does not have to be true. It may not actually be |
| confidence of a person however, by what they have | | | | based on fact or any known laws of the universe. |
| accomplished so far. Without history of connected | | | | That of course gives it another quality, whether this |
| actions then any self-confidence could be regarded as | | | | knowledge can be proven or not, it is to the individual |
| mere imagination until at least the most fundamental | | | | uniquely their view of reality. An example would be |
| actions are accomplished. In fact confidence does not | | | | where one person believes that a limitation can be |
| depend on history itself, but it adds power to the all the | | | | beaten, where universally this is not accepted, truth |
| other factors. It is purely the persons' history that we | | | | cannot be applied because both sets of knowledge |
| consider here, this is the most significant, their own | | | | are true and both equally effective. |
| perception of events. The knowledge of this history | | | | |