Richard St. John spent 7 years doing 500 interviews talking to successful people to find out what made them successful. He distills this into eight secrets in this fast paced three minute talk. This is one of the most popular TED talks ever and is worth watching and sharing. The key message for us is that success happens not due to ambition or ego. It happens when you shut the ego out and let passion take over. When the ego is away, work becomes fun and you can have a great time working hard. And because successful people are able to focus on one thing and work hard persistently they become good at what they are doing. This is a big driver of success. Because the effort is outside the context of the ego it becomes a way to serve others. It now becomes easy to push yourself hard to take you beyond where you could imagine you could go. Also great collaboration occurs outside the context of the ego and good ideas flow and mature in such an environment.
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