{"id":1425,"date":"2009-04-16T16:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:19:14","slug":"what-leads-people-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/16\/what-leads-people-to-success","title":{"rendered":"What leads people to success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the better three and a half minute videos out there (like a lightning talk), by Richard St. John, at TED, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html\">The Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes<\/a>. Watch it. Its summed up as:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>passion<\/b>: do it for love not for money<\/li>\n<li><b>work<\/b>: its all hard work. nothing comes easily, but you have fun nonetheless<\/li>\n<li><b>good<\/b>: practice, practice, practice, and be damn good at it<\/li>\n<li><b>focus<\/b>: focus yourself on one thing<\/li>\n<li><b>push<\/b>: push yourself. physically, mentally, just push through shyness and self-doubt<\/li>\n<li><b>serve<\/b>: serve others something of value<\/li>\n<li><b>ideas<\/b>: listen, observe, be curious, ask questions, problem solve, make connections<\/li>\n<li><b>persist<\/b>: persistence is the number one reason for success<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/blogjunkie\">@blogjunkie<\/a> for pointing this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the better three and a half minute videos out there (like a lightning talk), by Richard St. John, at TED, titled The Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes. Watch it. Its summed up as: passion: do it for love not for money work: its all hard work. nothing comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[859,538,212],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-success","tag-ted","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}