You Don’t Need Luck. You Need to Fail.
These are the common denominators that all successful people share.
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It’s easy to look at someone who is successful and think they must have talent, money, opportunity, luck, or some kind of crazy connection that normal people like us just don’t have access to.
How nice for them that their stars aligned, but it’s not like that happens for everyone, right?
But the thing is that talent, money, opportunity, luck, and connections aren’t things that every successful person has. There are plenty of people who are successful despite lacking one or more of those — or even all of them.
I’m a little obsessed lately by the things that successful people actually dohave in common. Let’s call them the success common denominators. I have a little list: a work ethic, a growth mindset, continued learning, grit, and failure.
Every successful person has these things in common. What really stands out to me is that none of these common denominators are subjective. None of them are gifts or random acts of universal good will.
They’re all things that are completely in our control. We can cultivate them, or not. We can do them, or not. None of this depends on anyone else. And that’s what really excites me.