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Many graduates from college and high school will get gifts, scholarships, extra money from their parents for final year activites, and yet very few will send thank you notes to anyone. But those who do are 69% more likely to be successful than their counterparts according to a recent survey by socialogists and Danish York Univeristy.

Why is this true?

According to the givers of the survey, the character traits of the most successful people such as attention to detail, people skills, and leadership will manifest themselves in certain behavior, but Dr. Sam Ruggieri suggests that there is an even more postive trait amongs the elite and successful: GRATITUDE.

The survey followed two seperate graduating classes contain approximately  (1500 college seniors and 1500 high school seniors) for ten years. The survey simply selected students at random from different parts of the country, and surveyed teachers, administrators, and other school officials to find out if the particular senior sent them a teacher thank you card or gift, a scholarship thank you letter or a graduation thank you of some kind.

Of the 3,000 graduates surveyed only 227 students (less than 8%) sent any type of written acknowledgement of thanks. Ten years later these graduates had not only completed a higher level of education (over half of the students had Masters degrees), but they also earned nearly a third more than the rest of 92% of their classmates with an average salary of $67,000. Two of the 227 students earned an excess of 5 million dollars a mere ten years after their graduation date.