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Nice post Yorick! very inspiring…
those of use who are humble and understand the true meaning of your post has to over look the jackasses and their negative comments…
and to Bill I enjoyed reading your response…

This writing is so very well said.  Thank you!

Very inspiring and motivating.

I agree with all 10…nice job!

How about just being yourself and finding where you fit?

Very nice post!

This whole thing reads like a horoscope from Women’s Weekly. Most of it is made up pseudo-inspirational nonsense and the rest falls squarely under the category of “DUH”! Of course successful people work hard that’s like saying comedians make people laugh. Barring random strokes of luck and lottery winners, no one has ever achieved “success” as the result of NOT working hard. Have you ever seen a square circle? Durr…

1. Pure bullshit. Successful people do not always respond instantly, this is the type of advice for retards that makes me grit my teeth and remind myself punching the computer monitor will accomplish nothing. Successful people are generally good at logical ANALYSIS, they also tend to be smarter than you, and the needs of a given situation will determine the speed at which they respond. Some of the best decisions take years to mull over and some of the worst mistakes were made as the direct result of lack of forethought. Yorick is literally just making shit up here.

2. Duh. No shit. Work hard for success. Got it. Play hard durka durka. See, some of the most successful people don’t play AT ALL. Some of the giants in business, industry titans, literally never take a minute off. But of course, it sounds better for the sake of blogging if we say “work hard play hard blargedy blarwarble” so whatever we’ll just go with that. The funny thing is that this isn’t necessarily true though. Some people accomplish “success” just so they can have the financial freedom to work the least amount possible.

3. Ah yes, I read this in a fortune cookie once. Or a horoscope. My point is that this is something most people will look at and nod because it sounds like it makes sense, but isn’t necessarily the case. A lot of successful people aren’t curious about anything else but increasing profit margins. Many have tunnel vision and literally never give two shits about anything else outside their niche. And what is this crap about school; successful people actually apply what they learned in school? Is he implying that the rest of us cretins don’t actually apply the things we learn in school? The funny thing is, a great deal of “successful” people did awful in school or dropped out.

4. Successful people network. Golly jeepers Yorick, how many successful people did you “study” to figure this one out? Everyone in business networks. I know a lot of unsuccessful people who network too, this doesn’t mean anything. At all. Next.

5. Yorick seems to be operating on the “if it sounds good in a fortune cookie, I’ll just throw it in there” principle. Successful people are really good at self improvement. They learn from their mistakes. Who says that successful people ever improve at anything? Some of them figure out something that works and stick to it their whole lives. I was recently contracted by a company who’s been doing their inventory the same way for the last 6 decades. They literally have no interest in doing it any different, despite the fact that a dozen or so RF scanners and some decent WM software would improve their accuracy and save hundreds of hours in productivity on a monthly basis. They’re not interested because they don’t give a fuck. They hate change, they don’t embrace it, and this is a privately owned company growing at an exponential rate, and is unrivaled in their market.

6. Yorick seems to be under the impression that successful people are like these artistic savants who go around finger painting stuff because we just can’t control our creative impulses! No, sorry, successful people are not like fucking Rainman or flying kites in lightning storms to research lightning for our next great discovery. This childish misconception comes straight from Hollywood. The vast majority of the most successful people I know and do business with, are also the most boring dullards you will ever come into contact with. They are the antithesis of creativity. While you were fingerpainting and eating glue, a lot of them weren’t doing anything more creative than saving up their lunch money for something useful while you were blowing yours on Mountain Dew and Pop Rocks. If anything, they are simply more PRACTICAL than you are.

7. Successful people also whine and complain a lot, just like everyone else. When mistakes get made, they are just as likely to place blame, especially when there are dozens or sometimes hundreds of subordinates lower on the totem poll to take the blame with. They will all gladly accept responsibility for success, sometimes even yours, so watch your back.

8. Successful people rarely have time to relax, stress is one of the biggest unfortunate byproducts of success.

9. Living in the now is one of the most retarded new-age attempts at sloganeering I’ve ever heard. There’s no other moment for me to live in, so shut the fuck up and find something better to do with my time.

I don’t see how you think these conradict one another.  I have worked with entreprenuers who definately have both 9 qnd 10 traits.  George Ross

Most of them seem to contradict each other in some way. You can’t be all of these things at once. And I have met some very successful people who are very little of aANY of these things. While they are in some ways good goals I dont think they are the be all and end all.

wow… that was really inspiring

I like your mention of quick response time Yorick.

Successful people make decisions quickly and definitely. They know exactly what they want so it’s not difficult to make a choice at a moment’s notice. Even if the decision was poor, they simply learn from it quickly and move on.

Thanks for sharing!

RB

I am very motivated by these traits. Anxiety weigh in a lot.
I am going to refer to these traits daily to see if i can make the shift. Thanks For sharing
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#3 is dead on. I encourage this curiosity in my kids and students.

Hey Yorick! How about setting things up so we can print a post without having to print pages & pages of comments or do a copy & paste hack job? That will make it easier to keep the URL with your excellent writing.

@email … “successful” is not necessarily a synonym for “wealthy”. My Dad was highly successful but never more than moderately well-off. Last month he was buried 700 miles from where he had lived the past several years and STILL filled the funeral home to over-capacity for the sermon. That’s an awful lot of people who thought his life had value. The line to the cemetery was over a mile long. That’s the sort of respect given royalty.

I make even less money than he did, and I consider myself successful. Not because I have a network of friends like he did, but because my goal as a young man was to marry, have a family and do a good job raising them. I did that. My home and cars are paid for. I have a garden that gives me a lot of healthy food while helping to keep me ‘centered’ in a Zen sort of way.

Borrowing from Zig Ziglar (DAGS) “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” My ideals were worthy and I achieved them. That makes me a success.

If you measure your life by the money you have, you’ll always be either disappointed or arrogant. Measure instead by the positive impact you have on the world. If you evidence those ten traits, you -will- have a positive impact and you will be compensated from a hundred different directions … only some of which will look like money, but all of which will make you a wealthy human being.