Secrets of Success in Eight Words Three Minutes
Do You Ever Wonder Why Do People Succeed?
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What Leads to Success?
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They are Very SMART?
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They got the Secret Formula?
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or just a Pure Luck?
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No!
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Now you can throw away ALL those Expensive Motivational, Coaching or Self Development Seminar and Books!
Richard St. John has spent more than a decade researching the lessons of success condenses years of interviews into 3-minute slide show on the real secrets of success.
He is a self-described average guy who found success doing what he loved.
The Most important criteria in the formula of success is, doing what you love.
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Richard St. John: Secrets of Success in 8 words, 3 minutes
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Complete talk’s transcript:
This is really a two hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes.
And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family.
And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, “What leads to success?”
And I felt really badly, because I couldn’t give her a good answer. So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I’m in the middle of a room of successful people!
So why don’t I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids?
So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I’m gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes TED-sters tick.
1. And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, “I’m driven by my passion.”
TED-sters do it for love, they don’t do it for money. Carol Coletta says, “I would pay someone to do what I do.”
And the interesting thing is, if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.
2. Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, “It’s all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun.” Did he say fun? Rupert?
3. Yes! TED-sters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they’re not workaholics. They’re workafrolics. Good!
Alex Garden says, “To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it.” There’s no magic, it’s practice, practice, practice.
4. And it’s focus. Norman Jewison said to me, “I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing”
5. And push! David Gallo says, “Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you’ve gotta push, push, push.” You gotta push through shyness and self-doubt.
Goldie Hawn says, “I always had self-doubts. I wasn’t good enough, I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t think I’d make it.” Now it’s not always easy to push yourself, and that’s why they invented mothers. (Laughter)
Frank Gehry — Frank Gehry said to me, “My mother pushed me.”
6. Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, “It was a privilege to serve as a doctor.” Now a lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires.
And the first thing I say to them is, “OK, well you can’t serve yourself, you gotta serve others something of value. Because that’s the way people really get rich.”
7. Ideas. TED-ster Bill Gates says, “I had an idea — founding the first micro-computer software company.” I’d say it was a pretty good idea.
And there’s no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas, it’s just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence.
8. Persist. Joe Kraus says, “Persistence is the number one reason for our success.” You gotta persist through failure. You gotta persist through crap! Which of course means “Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure.”
So, the big — the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED. Or failing that, do the eight things — and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you TED-sters for all your interviews!
In short:
1) PASSION – I’m driven by my passion.
( Freeman Thomas, Car Designer DaimlerChrysler)
2) WORK – It’s all hard work. Nothing comes easy. I have a lot of fun.
( Rupert Murdoch, CEO News Corp.)
3) GOOD – To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it. (Alex Garden, Game Developer)
4) FOCUS – I think it all has to do with focusing yourself to one thing.
( Norman Jewison, Filmmaker)
5) PUSH – Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you gotta push, push, push.
( David Gallo, Marine Scientist )
6) SERVE It was a privilege to serve as a doctor.
( Sherwin Nuland, Professor of Surgery, Yale University)
7) IDEAS I had an idea- founding the first micro-computer software company. (Bill Gates, Microsoft creator)
8) PERSIST Persistence is the number one reason for our success. ( Joe Kraus, Co-founder Excite.com )
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