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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common: 8 to be Great

After reading John Wooden's book on success, I read Richard St. John's, The 8 Traits Successful People Have in Common: 8 to be Great (remembering what George Herbert said, "Woe be to him who reads but one book.").

St. John interviewed about 500 successful people in diverse fields and collected interviews of additional successful people, compiling a big database on the keys to success. He identified about 300 traits and from those, he identfied eight major traits.

  1. Passion: Successful people love what they do
  2. Work: They work very hard
  3. Focus: They focus on one thing, not everything
  4. Push: They keep pushing themselves
  5. Ideas: They come up with good ideas
  6. Improve: They keep improving themselves and what they do
  7. Serve: They serve others something of value
  8. Persist: They persist through time, failure and adversity

Another interesting list. So, how does it compare with Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success?

Coach Wooden's
Pyramid of Success
Compared to
St. John's 8 to be Great

Competitive Greatness
Be at your best when your best is needed
   
Poise
Just being yourself
Confidence
Comes from being prepared and keeping proper perspective
     

Condition

Push

Skill

Ideas

Team Spirit

Serve

   

Self Control

Focus

Alertness

Improve

Initiative

Push, Persist

Intentness

Persist

 

Industriousness

Work

Friendship

Serve

Loyalty

Serve

Cooperation

Serve

Enthusiasm

Passion

With just a bit of tweeking we see a lot of overlap. (St. John's categories are in blue in the diagram above.) Wooden has a lot of characteristics that are specific to teamwork: team spirit, friendship, loyalty and cooperation. St. John notes that some people find success through teamwork while others work alone. However, St. John's list emphasizes the importance of other people by specifying that your work must serve others.

Posted at 12:00 AM Keywords: success 1 Comments

 
ahsan pathan said...
i am impress

Friday, July 27, 2012 12:44 AM

   

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