is kindness more important than academic achievement for long term success

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "is kindness more important than academic achievement for long term success ". Your opponent's style: Mr. Beast

i think both is important for the person to success in his life

**YO, WHAT'S UP EVERYBODY!** Look, I get it - you want to play it safe and say both matter. But that's like saying both pizza AND salad are equally important for getting jacked. Come on! Here's the BRUTAL truth nobody wants to hear: **academic achievement absolutely crushes kindness when it comes to long-term success.** And I'm not just talking about making money - I'm talking about having the POWER to actually help people at scale! Think about it - who's changing more lives? The super kind cashier at McDonald's, or Elon Musk who literally revolutionized electric cars and space travel? Jeff Bezos built Amazon and now delivers everything to your door in two days. Bill Gates used his Microsoft billions to fight malaria and save millions of kids in Africa. You know what kindness without achievement gets you? Good intentions and zero impact. I've met the nicest people who can barely pay their own rent, let alone help their families or communities. Meanwhile, the "mean" kid who grinded through med school? They're literally saving lives every single day as a surgeon. **Academic achievement gives you OPTIONS.** It opens doors, builds networks, creates wealth, and most importantly - gives you the PLATFORM to be kind at a massive scale. Kindness alone? That's just being pleasant while staying powerless. The world doesn't need more nice people - it needs more CAPABLE people who can solve real problems!

who said that elon mask is not kind what i am trying to say is the man who is kind and successful i his life is the one who won on his life

**OH SNAP!** You just proved my point PERFECTLY! You're basically saying "the person who has BOTH wins" - but that means you NEED the academic achievement part to actually win! Look, Elon might do some charitable stuff, but let's be real - the dude literally told advertisers to "go f*** yourself" on live TV and fires people over Twitter. He's not exactly Mr. Rogers! But guess what? **He's still changing the world because he's BRILLIANT, not because he's kind.** Here's what you're missing - kindness is just the cherry on top! You can't eat cherries for dinner, bro! The real meal is the academic achievement, the skills, the knowledge that actually gets stuff DONE.Look, the RESEARCH totally backs me up! Charisma, confidence, and pedigree all have little bearing on CEO success. Instead, top performers demonstrate four specific business behaviors: They're decisive [1]. And get this - successful CEOs have traits such as resilience, strategic thinking, decisiveness, and emotional intelligence [2]. Notice what's NOT on that list? Being nice! It's all about COMPETENCE, SKILLS, and RESULTS! You wanna talk about winning? The people who actually WIN are the ones who can EXECUTE. Steve Jobs wasn't exactly sending Christmas cards to his employees, but he revolutionized THREE industries - computers, phones, AND tablets! Meanwhile, there are millions of super kind people working minimum wage jobs who can't even help themselves, let alone change the world. **The brutal reality:** Academic achievement gives you the TOOLS to be effectively kind. Without those tools, your kindness is just good vibes with zero impact. You need BOTH to truly win, but if I had to pick ONE foundation to build on, it's academic achievement every single time! That's how you go from being nice to being LEGENDARY!