Richard St. John was on his way to the TED conference when a girl on the plane asked him, “What really leads to success?” Even though he had achieved some success, he couldn’t explain how he did it. So he spent the next ten years researching success and asking over 500 extraordinarily successful people in many fields what helped them succeed. After analyzing, sorting, and correlating millions of words of research, and building one of the most organized databases on the subject of success, he discovered The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common and wrote the bestseller 8 To Be Great.
In his books and talks, he shares a wealth of wisdom from the world’s most successful people — knowledge that can help others succeed in their own way, whether it’s escaping poverty, building a business, raising a family, or changing the world.
“It’s so great. It’s such a boost of confidence. This book really gives you a lot of self-esteem about who you are, and that you really can be somebody.”
Thomas Fischer, Habitat for Humanity

If anyone of us can pick one or two of these traits and begin to work on them there is no doubt that we can begin to move forward with out lives. We often look for the magic pill to success but it can be disguised little things that become habits. People like to look at it from many angles and metaphors but when someone like Napolean Hill or say a Richard St. John do this kind of research and can bring it down to a handful of basic things then we had best close our mouths and start doing these same things. You can say all the stuff about not wanting to be successful like them or wanting that kind of responsibility etc. but you’d be missing the point, if it moves you from feeling bad to feeling really good about yourself then your successful. That’s the point.

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