http://www.ted.com Why do people succeed? Is it because theyre smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.
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If you really think …
If you really think you will ever succeed with the power of a useless cliche, then by all means waste your life. You don’t teach someone how to swim by telling them to love it or work at it, that advice forces them to learn everything on their own, and is thus, not true advice. I dsilike this type of thing for one simple reason, it provides false hope and guidance to those that need it most. Snake oil disguised as medicine.
@robotpanda77 Your …
@robotpanda77 Your post is dripping with cynicism. I would wager that with your attitude, you are not going to be one of those successful people. Richard has it exactly right. Success is not easy but it IS simple and those 8 words are indeed the keys to success.
Perhaps you should consider what all these successful people are saying before you discount it as cliche.
So I have to work …
So I have to work and enjoy it? Holy Sh*t this guy is a genius! lol give me a break. They have a board at my job where they do employee profiles and 99% of the time the advice is either passion or love what you do. In those exact same words. This is not advice, these are cliches. This would be like a furniture instruction manual just saying “Build it”.
stumbled from the …
stumbled from the top of the stairs and got hurt
stumbled from Norway
stumbled from Norway
stumbled from …
stumbled from Toronto Ontario
stumbled from cairo
stumbled from cairo
stumbled from texas
stumbled from texas
stumbled from ohio
stumbled from ohio
stumbled from your …
stumbled from your mom, va.
Twice!
Twice!
Stumbled from …
Stumbled from Amman Jordan
Stumbled from …
Stumbled from Guelph Ontatrio.
What a great way to …
What a great way to put the SUCCESS formula accross!
Stumbled from …
Stumbled from Philippines
Brilliant.. Loved …
Brilliant.. Loved it
so you meet a very …
so you meet a very poor student in a plane?
Poor people do not fly planes ha ha
They eat first
Why? You’d learn it …
Why? You’d learn it even faster if you applied these vague concepts to the best of your understanding and came back afterward with questions.. no over-thinking is necessary
Stumbled from Las …
Stumbled from Las Vegas, NV
Pretty generic and …
Pretty generic and vague. I was expecting something I haven’t heard before…
stumbled from canada
stumbled from canada
This is the …
This is the distillation, the essence and a great summation as well as starting point and checklist of getting to the heart of what makes for success.
@Kiwichico Sorry …
@Kiwichico Sorry not Blink the book is called Outliers.
@vortexx76 Thanks …
@vortexx76 Thanks for your comment. Well if someone gave me a thumbs down please explain. If you go to a factory in India all of these points would have been met. As for the example of Bill Gates according to Malcom Gladwell, the author of Blink. Gates happen to come across the idea at the right time at the right place with the right contacts. Its your environment that makes a difference. I guess my comment removed hope. But there is hope move to a different environment.
@Kiwichico Smart …
@Kiwichico Smart man…No matter what you say, however, most people will give you a thumbs down for such a comment. Truth is something that we seem to run from for some reason…