The Eight Secrets of Success In Life
In the corporate business world, Richard St. John achieved success as a member of the scientific staff at Nortel Networks R&D labs. For ten years, he was a researcher, marketing guru, and a CEO speechwriter. He won design awards, did breakthrough consumer research, and made creative production for many of Nortel’s largest product launches. For his ted talk on success he spent ten years doing over 500 face-to-face interviews with many of the world’s most successful people, including Bill Gates, Martha Stewart, and even Richard Branson. He analyzed every word they said and correlated every comment, and created one of the world’s largest and most organized databases about success. From that he discovered the critical factors for achievement in any field. He wrote a bestselling book “The 8 Traits Successful People have in Common”, that even Bill Gates personally asked Richard a copy for. What Richard really hits on his ted talk are the eight factors of success which are passion, work, good, focus, push, serve, ideas, and persistence.
Richard’s key argument is the question that all Americans ask themselves and others is on how to be successful. He breaks it down into first passion for to not do something because you have to, but to do it for love as radio producer of Smart City Carol Colettea said, “Do it for love….. Not Money”. Second is work, as said by Rupert Murchoch the Big Cheese CEO, “It’s all hard work, nothing comes easily, but I have a lot of fun". Third would be good, “To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it”, as what Alex Garden a game developer quoted. With being good at what you want comes with a lot of repetitive practice. Fourth is focus and to focusing yourself to one thing Norman Jewison a filmmaker told Richard. Coming in fifth is push, “Push yourself physically, mentally, you gotta push, push, and push”, and a quote by David Gallo a marine scientist. With the push you have to push yourself through the shyness and self-doubt. At sixth comes serving others something of value. This is how the rich get really rich as Richard commented. Seventh are ideas which we could all say Bill Gates had one of the best ideas to the date. Finally there is persistence which is the number reason for our success and with persistence you have to reject “CRAP” (criticism, rejection, assholes, pressure). What Richard was trying to explain to the audience was essentially eight terms Americans should live by if they want to be successful in their terms due to research he conducted from some of the wealthiest people in America. There weren’t any counter arguments due this ted talk was an informative presentation.
Personal Statement: As an American teenager I do agree with that Richard had to say on his points about success. As I take all the points in consideration the topics work hand to hand and if one is missing it all seems to crumble. This is also applied to life you can have 99% of the work done, but that 1% could be the most important. In “Working in the Shadows” by Gabriel Thompson all the immigrant workers he encounters all have attributes of the eight traits of success. Even though they aren’t the top 1% of America they all have what it takes to be successful and they are for what they have come from. For example, you can’t expect or even compare a let’s say Bill Gates son to an immigrant coming from Guatemala working in the fields of Yuma. Let’s take a look at the immigrant workers at Azteca the Mexican restaurant in New York. To be delivery boy it takes passion to even endure the dinner rush, hard work to fulfill the orders, good with the orders and efficient which comes with practice, focused on the deliveries they are preparing and making, they push themselves to get through the dinner rush, they give within each other meals to end their hunger, they come up with ideas to make the delivery process faster, and lastly they are persistents with making sure the order to done correctly.
Richard’s key argument is the question that all Americans ask themselves and others is on how to be successful. He breaks it down into first passion for to not do something because you have to, but to do it for love as radio producer of Smart City Carol Colettea said, “Do it for love….. Not Money”. Second is work, as said by Rupert Murchoch the Big Cheese CEO, “It’s all hard work, nothing comes easily, but I have a lot of fun". Third would be good, “To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it”, as what Alex Garden a game developer quoted. With being good at what you want comes with a lot of repetitive practice. Fourth is focus and to focusing yourself to one thing Norman Jewison a filmmaker told Richard. Coming in fifth is push, “Push yourself physically, mentally, you gotta push, push, and push”, and a quote by David Gallo a marine scientist. With the push you have to push yourself through the shyness and self-doubt. At sixth comes serving others something of value. This is how the rich get really rich as Richard commented. Seventh are ideas which we could all say Bill Gates had one of the best ideas to the date. Finally there is persistence which is the number reason for our success and with persistence you have to reject “CRAP” (criticism, rejection, assholes, pressure). What Richard was trying to explain to the audience was essentially eight terms Americans should live by if they want to be successful in their terms due to research he conducted from some of the wealthiest people in America. There weren’t any counter arguments due this ted talk was an informative presentation.
Personal Statement: As an American teenager I do agree with that Richard had to say on his points about success. As I take all the points in consideration the topics work hand to hand and if one is missing it all seems to crumble. This is also applied to life you can have 99% of the work done, but that 1% could be the most important. In “Working in the Shadows” by Gabriel Thompson all the immigrant workers he encounters all have attributes of the eight traits of success. Even though they aren’t the top 1% of America they all have what it takes to be successful and they are for what they have come from. For example, you can’t expect or even compare a let’s say Bill Gates son to an immigrant coming from Guatemala working in the fields of Yuma. Let’s take a look at the immigrant workers at Azteca the Mexican restaurant in New York. To be delivery boy it takes passion to even endure the dinner rush, hard work to fulfill the orders, good with the orders and efficient which comes with practice, focused on the deliveries they are preparing and making, they push themselves to get through the dinner rush, they give within each other meals to end their hunger, they come up with ideas to make the delivery process faster, and lastly they are persistents with making sure the order to done correctly.