Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

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http://www.ted.com Why do people succeed? Is it because they’re smart, or are they just lucky? Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an…

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  1. Wonderfully concise Richard, I love it, as a minimalist artist it
    fascinates me, minimal on time but everything is in there.
    So much to take away and apply to my entrepreneurial endeavours.
    Johnnie Lawson

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  2. Very true. But there are sometimes unconditional factors for success like
    intelligence, opportunity, beauty,…. These are things that can’t be made.

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  4. thanks a lot
    I like a lot because you have syntetized very well your ideas and it’s a
    good work
    the idea of success is very important for growing.
    you are very charismatic and funny
    from Catalonia free democratic peaceful oppressed by Spain

    What is the list of success?
    What leads to success, 7 years researching over 500 interviews
    The first thing is passion, do it for love not for money, if you do things
    for love money comes anyway
    The second one is work, nothing is coming easily, but working in a fun way
    The third one is good to be succesful put your nose down in something and
    get damn good at it
    fourth is focus, focusing yourself to one thing
    The fifth is to push pysically, mentally
    The sixth to serve vocational way to serve as a doctor,
    The seventh is to create ideas observe, be curious, ask questions, solve
    problems, make connections
    The eight to persist

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  9. #TEDtalkTuesday secrets of success in 3 minutes Richard St. John: Secrets
    of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

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  10. “What leads to success?” – Yeah, this is an interesting and popular issue
    for everyone to discuss nowadays. And, I’m sure he mentioned the success of
    one’s career.

    Here are some of my words to summarize the content of this video:

    In this video, Mr John shared 8 secrets of success that they were contained
    in some following words, namely:
    1- Passion: is to do something for love but not for money. And if you do it
    for love, the money comes anyway.
    2- Work: Remember that you work as workafrolics who do have fun working but
    not workaholics who work very hard.
    3- Focus: is when you do with focusing yourself on one thing. When focusing
    on one thing (even one person) we will understand it thoroughly and then
    find the way to make it better.
    4 – Push: I think he was using the word “put” instead of “motivation” –
    motivation maybe springs from oneself or maybe comes from others.
    5 – Practice: That’s correct! When you do something at the first time, it’s
    easy for you to make mistakes but you can learn from it. We all know that
    “Practice makes perfect.”
    6 – Serve: Of course, to earn money from other people means to serve other
    people to get it, especially serve others something of value.
    7 – Ideas: I think having many interesting ideas is the quickest way to
    reach success.
    8 – Persist: is the same as the word “WORK”, doing something without
    limiting time.

    If we are talking about the success of career, in my opinion, there are
    millions of opportunities out there to lead to success but the most
    important thing is how we could search them out.

    Sometimes I think we always need a lucky chance to start up. Sometimes I
    believe only when working so hard and then learning from our own failures,
    we will move towards our success more nearly. And we should keep our mind
    steady in a hard situation. I means I really like the words “WORK” and
    “PERSIST.”

    And I would like to know, what word in 8 above words do you like most?????

    Moreover I wonder which success is the most important for us, the success
    of the career or the success in life? And what is called “success”? (Ohh,
    there are many things to think about!!!!!)

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  16. De ‘geheimen’ die leiden naar het succes lijken simpel genoeg volgens
    Richard St. John.
    Maar stimuleren wij, ouders, leraren, werkgevers,… in Suriname onze
    kinderen en jeugd (de toekomst van het land) voldoende om ondernemende en
    gerespecteerde volwassenen te worden? Houden wij daarbij wel rekening met
    de ‘modern youth’ die vanaf jongs af aan blootgesteld word aan smartphones,
    internet e.d. ?

    The ‘secrets’ to success appear to be very basic things, according to
    Richard St. John.
    But do we, parents, teachers, employers,… in Suriname stimulate our
    children and youth (the future of this country) enough to become successful
    and respected grown-ups?
    Do we in our approach consider sufficiently the fact that we’re dealing
    with ‘modern youth’ that has more than ever been exposed to smartphones,
    internet and such?

    #FLaE
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bbMQXQ180

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  17. i think he forgot the importance of programming…if you love what you do
    or work very hard but not program… you ‘ll might fail in my opinion

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  18. It’s great research,except the condition 2 ” WORK” I didn’t concordant with
    this point 100%, our character must be somewhat more sober , there is no
    time for our Family,body,Spiritual life. 

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  20. 2014 24th May-When is the right time @ excellent location with supportive
    people and use the powerful tool for the way of success?

    Auspicious time during Rat hours 11pm–1am, Tiger hour 3am-5am, Rabbit hour
    5am-7am, Monkey hour 3pm-5pm and Dog hour 7pm-9pm.
    Excellent location @ east, south west, north east and south east directions.
    ( Sale person can stand at this direction to have the sale talk.)
    Supportively zodiac of Earth Tiger ( 28/01/1998-15/02/1999 ),Earth Rabbit (
    19/02/1939-07/02/1940, 16/02/1999-04/02/2000 ), Wood Monkey (
    25/01/1944-12/02/1945, 22/01/2004-08/2/2005 ), Fire Dog (
    02/02/1946-21/01/1947,29/01/2006-17/02/2007 ), Fire Pig (
    22/01/1947-09/02/1948, 18/02/2007-06/02/2008 ).
    The powerful tools are black, blue, green and horse coin .
    Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes
    Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

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  21. I forgot to say that it is or was so good & like I that I posted it on
    Social Media page. I rather not say which one. Lol ;)

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  25. AMAZING & ONLY 3 MINUTES ! ! ! Cool. Best most motivational instructing out
    of all, a person I know has sent via text of the Youtube link to Ted
    Videos. The other was 20 minutes one that clicked on from txt that person
    sent me.

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  26. Funny he missed out on ‘be male’, ‘be white (or asian),’ ‘be rich’, ‘have
    well connected parents’, ‘get into Harvard (or equivalent)’, ‘steal other
    peoples ideas’, ‘have your mother sitting on the same board as an IBM
    bigwig’

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  31. GOOD AFTERNOON Tuesday May 27, 2014
    Series 2/3 Omne triun perfectum
    Everything that comes in threes is perfect

    Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

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