The 1 Trait All Successful People Have
It's a lot more simple than you
think.
First of all, let
me start by saying that "success" is relative. However you define success is what success
will ultimately be for you.
Now...
When looking
at some of the world's thought leaders, people who have redefined industries,
those that grab hold of a market and shake it until it sways to the beat of
their own drum, I've noticed a trend.
This is a trend I have also witnessed specifically in
three of my mentors, Ron Gibori, Aaron Webber, and Mark Beeching. These are masters of their fields, but even more so,
masters of their approach to their work. After all, it is the approach that
ultimately allows "success" to be transferred from one domain to the
next.
What I've
noticed is that being "successful" doesn't really have to do with
waking up earlier, going to bed later, drinking more coffee, doing your work
upside-down, incorporating power-saving light bulbs in your office, going for
long walks in the wilderness and then coming upon a babbling brook and staring
at your reflection, reading books on innovation and creativity, attending
seminars and industry retreats, marketing yourself on social media, positioning
yourself as a thought leader, or any of those more tactical strategies that all
too often hide the fundamental principle that drives all of that in the first
place. Those things are great, but they aren't the "core."
The 1 trait
that all successful people have in common is this:
Successful people are 100% confident that, whatever the
challenge, they will be able to figure it out--and at the same time, they are
100% willing to forgo everything they think they know and admit to knowing
nothing.
What I mean
by that is this: Truly "successful" people are those who lack the
fear of being wrong, and instead embrace it (because "wrong" to
them is part of the learning process). Truly "successful"
people want to know everything about their craft and the industry they're in,
and at the same time never want to say the words "I know everything."
That means the discovery process is over--and it is never over.
It's a trait
of duality, then, having such a wide scope of knowledge that, in a sense, you
do "know everything," however also having the humility and the
child-like wonder to keep both eyes open and admit, at any moment, "I know
nothing. I am new to this."
So many
people fear that state of vulnerability because they view it as a weakness. It
is quite the contrary. It is actually the trait, arguably the only trait, that
allows someone to constantly reinvent themselves--and subsequently the
industries they play within. After all, without admitting you don't have all
the answers, how else will you discover the next "answer?"
BY NICOLAS COLE
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