Why
do people succeed? Is it because they're smart, or are they just lucky? Analyst
Richard
St. John condenses 7 years of research and 500 interviews into 8 common
traits of successful people.
After
analyzing everything he’d learned, he came up with these eight traits:
- Passion: Love what you do.
- Work: Really hard.
- Focus: On one thing, not
everything.
- Push: And keep on pushing yourself.
- Ideas: Come up with some good
ones.
- Improve: Keep improving yourself
and what you do.
- Serve: Serve others something of
value.
- Persist: Because there is no
overnight success.
These
are the traits that are great if you have them, but should be sought after if
you don't. Success doesn't come easy, but when you know what you're aiming for,
taking the shot is much simpler.
I find confidence to be very important. Without it people are often way too defensive - which gets in the way of several items listed above.
ReplyDeleteI also see the ability to accurately access results as very important. And missing much too often. Data can't lie but if you don't know how to understand what data does and does not say you can be mislead.
http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2007/08/09/data-cant-lie/