Visualize it: Pavel Dokuchaev, a photographer from the outback, embodied the coaching tips in the photo

Pavel Dokuchaev, a 29-year-old photographer from Samara, honestly followed the motivational advice and showed how it would look. As Pavel told Bird in Flight, he has been engaged in photography for a year and two months, and his main field of activity is mechanical engineering. In his project, Pavel is ironic about the cult of the "successful person" and the distorted understanding of this image. He selected 10 tips, following which it is supposedly possible to achieve success, and embodied them in photographs against the background of Russian reality.

Take risks, dress businesslike, create an altar: Pavel Dokuchaev took tips on how to become successful, and made them a boy-engineer version. Google gives 15 million results in Russian and more than a billion in English to the query "how to become successful". Psychologists, bloggers, coaches and former politicians tell us exactly how to become "successful".

Pavel Dokuchaev lives in Samara. He studied at the School of Project Photography at the Victoria Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Use business style in clothes

There is a whole cult of the "successful person". Imagine: you are a simple engineer, working at a factory. Go to VKontakte in the evening, and there is a message: "Would you like to change your life? I will help you become successful!" And now you are already looking at photos of a pumped-up man in an expensive suit, his red sports car, a country house and beautiful girlfriends.

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Do what you love

This story is a strong generalization, but such things do occur at every turn. Constant references to "success" and the imposition of a distorted understanding of it — including an inadequate visual version — prompted me to take up this topic. After studying dozens of thematic sites, I selected ten tips, following which you can supposedly become successful.

Work hard

Develop communication skills

I admit, the work on the project was, in a boyish way, "high." I remember once I was riding around the city on a bicycle to take a picture with a cheburek. It was hot. I looked strange: a suit, patent leather shoes, trousers tucked into socks so that the pant leg would not wind up on a chain, a backpack with a tripod on my back.

Get involved in sports

They turned to look at me, and I smiled back — believing that instead of a successful person, they rather see me as another city lunatic.

Take a risk

After filming myself with cheburek, I realized that it was getting even hotter, and decided to return home. But an inner voice suggested stopping by the park on the way. And already there, driving past the shooting range, I heard a worker shout after me: "A young man in a suit on a bicycle, let's go shoot!"

Agree to any suggestions

And now I'm already shooting in the dash: after all, as the next "commandment of success" says, you need to "agree to any proposals." Studying the question, I came across statistics according to which the majority of Russians considered successful someone who lives in prosperity — financially prosperous. But is it right? I don't see anything wrong with wanting to have more money, but for me they are primarily a resource.

Surround yourself with like-minded people

With the very idea of success, well-being is connected very indirectly or not at all. Like in the film "Courier" by Karen Shakhnazarov, where the main character, after learning that his friend dreams of a coat, gives him his own, advising him to "dream of something great."

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For myself, I adopted a concise definition from Ozhegov's dictionary: "success is luck in achieving something." But this "something" is the most important thing that everyone has their own. And hardly anyone has the right to impose it.