8 traits of successful people - Richard St. John

Ten years of research and 500 face-to-face-interviews led Richard St. John to a collection of eight common traits in successful leaders around the world.

[jacky]

1. passion- love what you do
2. work hard
3. focus your energy on one thing
4. keep pushing yourself
5. come up with good ideas
6. improve at what you do
7. serve others
8. persist until you succeed

[junezhang]

I got so absorbed that I didn't pay attention to the fake audience, until I read the comments.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau

[realsandeep]

how can a "poor" girl travel along with him in the first class coach?

[modernmarvel]

Poor girl, she didn't get the answer to her most important question 😔

[ujjwaltyagi]

am i the only one who watched the whole video and didnt notice the fake audience?

[iwearniceshirts]

So sad to read through the comments and find a whole bunch of hopelessness being spread about. It's just sad that people think that success is only the result of luck, and that it's all about who's dealt the right cards. Don't believe those lies... You CAN be successful. Yes, it may take more effort than average, or maybe less, depending on where you're at, but the choice to be successful in any area of life is your choice. Don't let the mopers, blamers, and critics of success and successful people drag you down. Most are only envious of where successful people are at and aren't willing to do what it takes in their own lives to be successful, so they'll just try to drag everyone else down to where they're at, because it makes them comfortable. Don't let them! Keep dreaming! Keep striving! You can make this world a better place!

[nghiembinhbui]

He is a 10-years researcher, an experienced interviewer, an athlete and a successful person. I bow my head for this man. Thank you for your suggestions. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[TheFreshspidey]

You know somethings fishy when the ratings bar get's removed lol..

[TheModernHermeticist]

If at first you don't succeed... redefine success

[ipmppcq]

After watching the video, I remembered Henry David Thoreau's saying, "Success usually comes to someone who is too busy to find it." In other words, success is given to people who live a busy and passionate day for success, not to those who only hope for success and do nothing. I should be a person who can practice these eight elements at the same time by engraving passion, work, focus, push, idea, improve, serve, persist and person deep in my heart. 😄

[kumarprasanna]

8 Traits of successful people

1) PASSION - love what you do
2) WORK - Work really hard than ever before
3) FOCUS - focus on onething and not every thing (take up one idea in life and make that idea, your life)
4) PUSH - keep pushing yourself over your limit, every single time
5) IDEAS - comeup with new ideas
6) IMPROVE - keep improving on something you do
7) SERVE - serve others of some value ( success is not always about 'me')
8) PERSIST - there is no over night success

[stevef]

so he saved it all for the last 30 seconds

[melodylin]

To save you all some time, the eight traits of success begins at 6:10 .

before that, all he talked about was what led him to start this research of interviewing successful people

[Atlas-pnjv]

the reactions are too quick and the video quality of the crowd is different. This is all fabricated.

[bashvim]

Eight traits starts from 6:10. You are welcome :)

[Paulginz]

There are some serious issues with his methodology, so the conclusions should be taken with a large grain of salt.
1) He is asking successful people what they think led to their success. This is only useful if we assume that successful people have a good understanding of what made them successful. He admits he doesn't understand how he became successful himself. Plenty of people who win games of pure chance (e.g. roulette, snakes and ladders) incorrectly attribute their success to skill/strategy.
2) He is effectively asking successful people to describe their own personality. There are inherent biases at play. For example most people think they are more intelligent, altruistic, creative and hardworking than most people.
3) There is no control group. As far as we know, people who aren't so successful would also claim to be passionate, hardworking, and to have had persisted in the face of adversity etc.

A good test for this theory is to see whether he can use it to design a which can predict who will be successful and who won't (before they become successful or don't). I'm sure there would be a huge amount of interest in this if it can be made to work. For example employers might want to use it to test job applicants.

[Trazynn]

I see why the rating is disabled for this video.

[burpyoshi]

He successfully managed to pay people to laugh at his jokes

[ashleigh-eva]

i love the way he phrases and delivers his sentences, he sounds so cheerful it makes me happy— it's infectious really